On 11 July, the Egyptian Parliament approved the extension of the state of emergency for other three months and on 6 July the Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi announced the state of emergency’s extension for an additional month in all the territory of the republic. Both decisions are motivated by the fight against terrorism, in Egypt the state of emergency was established in 2017 and this prorogation provoked critics by human rights groups that accuse the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of using the state of emergency to repress oppositions. In Tunisia, the decision came after the suicide attacks of the last month, and the law was first approved in 2015. On 5 July, Tunisian PM Youssef Chahed also decided to ban “access to public administrations and institutions to anyone with their face covered” for security reasons, provoking the opposition of several religious groups that defend the right to wear Niqab or Burqa.