(9 March, 2010 – Geneva)   Egypt’s use of the Emergency Law to justify arbitrary detention and the use of exceptional  courts  was examined before the UN Human Rights Council yesterday in a ground-breaking report presented by Martin Scheinin, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism.   The report is the first issued by the main human rights body of the United Natio