A group of rights activists are attempting to annul Egypt’s 1914 Assembly Law arguing that it was repealed as early as 1928, Ahmed Aboulenein writes for Reuters. The law, which has been used to jail opposition activist over the past three years, was handed down under the British occupation in the lead up to World War One. In 1928, the then-parliament passed a bill to repeal it, but King Fuad I neither signed nor vetoed it within 30 days and prevented it being published in the official gazette. The activists argue that the fact that the 1928 repeal bill went unpublished did not detract from its legal status and that therefore the continued use of the Assembly Law is illegal. The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies published a 95-page report on the law last week.

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