Vice President Suleiman had talked, said he saw no reason to lift the emergency powers that have been in place since Hosni Mubarak took power 30 years ago, emergency powers that allow secret police to do virtually whatever they want.
Suleiman's statement on the continuation of emergency powers in Egypt.
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