emergency law

In any case, Syria has been under emergency law since 1963.

The courts were formed under the emergency law in force since 1967.

The country was governed under emergency laws from 1975 to 2002.

And of course, emergency law is still in place.

Egyptians have been living under emergency law since 1967, except for an 18-month break in 1980.

Emergency laws gave security forces the right to stop and search people without a warrant.

The governor may also declare an act to be an emergency law and make it effective at once.

Emergency laws have been continuously extended every three years since 1981.

In response the Government passed an emergency law that limits due process and other basic rights.

He added that hated emergency laws would be used to protect the nation.

Egypt's emergency laws have basically been in effect for more than three decades.

AP reports that the sentences had been given by a special security court set up under a period of emergency law last year.

Egypt has been ruled by emergency law for much of the last 40 years, according to the Congressional report.

On 19 April, the government approved a bill lifting the country's emergency laws.

The authorities already seem to be applying the emergency law less forcefully.

There is no evidence that emergency law has contributed to a solution to the troubles.

How can you ask me to sort of disband that emergency law while I'm in difficulty?

Both men were detained by the government under wartime emergency laws for their activities.

Yet state emergency laws have been in place in Egypt for the past 28 years.

You can't enforce emergency laws on me, with all due respect.

I was encouraged that the Obama administration called for the revocation of the emergency law.

Egypt had been ruled by emergency laws most of the time for 32 years and continuously since 1981.

Emergency law, in force since 1981, is virtually institutionalized.

The censorship, the curfew, the violence and the emergency laws have ended our public life.

"We will never use the emergency law against the Egyptian people," he said to the crowded parliamentary chamber.