Since 1981 hundreds of people have been detained under this law, some for more than eight years.
A person may be detained under Schedule 7 for up to 9 hours.
They were detained under maximum security for two weeks in prison.
One of my jobs is to detain people under the mental health act.
He was detained for six weeks in 2006 under Mubarak.
One further individual has been certified but is detained under other powers.
She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections.
Those detained under the decree have so far been released within a few days.
These seven were detained under a French law that allows the police and prosecutors to question them for 48 hours.
He was detained between 1965 and 1966 under the draconian law.
