Reuters, Cairo :Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and protects its enforcers in the face of a two-year-long Islamist insurgency that aims to topple his government.The law has come under fire from human rights groups who accuse Sisi, who as military chief deposed a freely elected Islamist president in 2013, of rolling back freedoms won in the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak.Approved on Sunday, the law details sentences for various terrorism crimes ranging from five years to the death penalty.It also shields those applying it, such as the military and police, from legal ramifications for what it calls the proportionate use of force “in performing their duties”.Sisi had promised a tougher legal system in July after a car bomb attack in Cairo that killed the chief public prosecutor, the highest ranking state official to be killed in years.
