The Mubarak regime is adamantly opposed, and resorts to extra-judicial means, such as emergency courts and national security and military courts, which do not observe international standards. Contrary to his campaign promises during his run for a fifth term as President, Mubarak has requested (and his rubber-stamp parliament has granted) a two-year extension of the Emergency Law by which Egypt has been ruled throughout his presidency.
法官们的要求遭到了穆巴拉克政府的坚决抵制，政府甚至不惜动用紧急法庭和国家安全及军事法庭等等根本不符合国际惯例的非法手段。穆巴拉克没有遵守竞选第5任总统时许下的诺言，要求把紧急状态法再延长两年。在穆巴拉克执政期间，埃及一直受到紧急状态法的统治。