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France's top court rejects demand to suspend state of emergency

Xinhua, January 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

Council of State of France on Wednesday rejected request of Human Rights League to suspend state of emergency, it said in a statement posted on its website.

The supreme court for administrative justice argued that it cannot itself suspend the state of emergency.

It also rejected demand to ask French President Francois Hollande to not prolong the state of emergency as he "considers that the imminent peril justifying the state of emergency has not disappeared given the maintenance of the terrorist threat and the risk of attack," the court said.

A day after November 13 deadly attacks claimed by Islamic State (IS) which killed 130 people, Hollande declared a state of emergency, the country's first such decision since the 1950s, to empower police to conduct house searches and arrest suspects without judicial warrants.

In a press release issued by his office on Friday, Hollande announced a bill to prolong a state emergency would be presented during a cabinet meeting scheduled for February 3, hoping to win large endorsement of his draft law "on protection of the nation". Endit