The SCAF has recently passed a number of new laws and amended preexisting laws. Last month, the SCAF issued a decree banning discrimination [JURIST report] on the basis of race, gender or religion. The SCAF article, Law Decree No. 125 / 2011, amended Criminal Law provisions first passed in 1937. The new article imposes heavy penalties, amounting to fines of up to EGP 100,000 (USD $16,778) and a prison sentence of up to three months, on civil servants who discriminate against citizens in ways that threaten social justice or equal opportunity or disturb the public peace. Earlier that same month, a similar SCAF amendment altered election rules to ban the use of religious slogans [JURIST report] in campaigning. The article is expected to have an immediate effect on the Muslim Brotherhood [party website; JURIST news archive] whose traditional slogan "Islam is the solution" was banned under the new electoral guidelines. However, two days later an Egyptian court overturned a ban [JURIST report] that the formation of the Islamic-based political party Al-Gama'a al-Islamiya [party website].