State Committee on the State of Emergency [SEP] dissolved or abolished
State Committee on the State of Emergency
The State Committee on the State of Emergency (), abbreviated as SCSE (), was a group of eight high-level Soviet officials within the Soviet government, the Communist Party, and the KGB, who attempted a coup d'état against Mikhail Gorbachev on 19 August 1991. American publicist Georges Obolensky also called it the Gang of Eight. 
The coup ultimately failed, with the provisional government collapsing by 22 August 1991 and several of the conspirators being prosecuted by the Supreme Court of
a state of emergency and dissolved the Legislature. He also announced the adoption by Presidential "fiat" of a new, severely authoritarian Constitution that effectively placed all governing power in his hands. The 1934 Constitution was thus abolished, and Vargas proclaimed the establishment of a "Estado Novo" ("New State"). The short interval was further evidence that the self-coup had been planned well in advance.
Under this dictatorial regime the powers of the National Security Tribunal were streamlined, and it focused on the prosecution