- 1341: The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has said the emergency law is "the most repressive law [affecting] the rights and freedoms of all Syrian citizens without exception". It is believed to have led directly to thousands of violations of human rights.
- 1339: Syria's emergency law designates the prime minister as the martial law governor of the country and the interior minister as his deputy, and gives them extraordinary powers. These include the ability to place restrictions on freedoms of individuals with respect to meetings, residence, travel and passage in specific places or at particular times; to preventatively arrest anyone suspected of endangering public security and order; to authorise investigation of persons and places; and to delegate any person to perform any of these tasks.
- 1331: Syria's emergency law, which effectively suspends most constitutional protections, has been in place since the Baath Party came to power in a military coup. Syrian governments have justified the continued imposition of the law by the state of war that continues to exist with Israel, and by continuing threats posed by militant groups.
- 1327: Syria's Minister of State for Political and Media Affairs, Buthaina Shaaban, tells al-Jazeera that the country's emergency laws, in place since 1963, will be lifted. But she declines to set out a timetable
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