Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Misira ta yi aiki a ƙarƙashin "yanayin gaggawa" duk sai dai watanni biyar tun daga 1967, yana ba shugaban damar haramta zanga-zanga, riƙe waɗanda aka tsare har abada ba tare da shari'a ba, da kuma ba da doka ta hanyar doka. Gabaɗaya, dokar ta baci tana ba gwamnati iko don sarrafa kowane matakin ayyukan siyasa, gami da waɗanda ke cikin iyakokin fagen siyasa da aka ayyana a hukumance. Tsawon dokar ya kai shekaru uku, amma ana sabunta shi akai-akai. Wannan yanayin ya fara ne lokacin da Shugaba Gamel Abdel Nasser ya yi nasarar kafa dokar ta baci a 1956, bayan mamayar Masar da Burtaniya, Faransa, da Isra'ila suka yi
, kuma ya ci gaba har zuwa 1963 bisa ga barazanar ci gaba da kai hari kan Masar. Nasser ya ayyana wani yanayin gaggawa a watan Yunin 1967 saboda Yaƙin Rana shida, wanda ya ci gaba ta hanyar Yakin Yakin, Yakin Oktoba, da kuma shekarun baya na shugabancin Anwar El-Sadat, wanda ya kasance yana da mahimmancin rikice-rikicen siyasa, tattalin arziki, da zamantakewa da rashin gamsuwa. Gabaɗaya, dokar ta baci da aka ayyana a lokacin yakin 1967 ta ɗauki shekaru 13. Bayan kisan Sadat a ranar 6 ga Oktoba, 1981, Mataimakin Shugaban kasa kuma magajinsa, Hosni Mubarak, ya ayyana wata dokar ta baci, wanda ya ci gaba da kasancewa a cikin tsawon shekaru talatin da ya yi a ofis.