Syria Repeal of the 1963 State of Emergency Law
إلغاء قانون الطوارئ السوري لعام 1963
Summary
Bashar al-Assad's decree lifting the 48-year-old emergency law that had been in force since the Ba'athist 1963 coup. Announced as part of his initial concessions to the protest movement.
Impact
Symbolic concession that did nothing to stop the regime's escalating violent response to the uprising. The repeal was followed weeks later by the deployment of armored units against protesters. Cited as evidence of the regime's bad-faith reformist rhetoric.
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Sources
- introduced_date en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06
https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/sy-emergency-law-repeal-2011 How to cite
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In-text: (People’s Assembly of Syria, 2011) (People’s Assembly of Syria, 2011)
APA 7Institutional author
People’s Assembly of Syria. (2011). Repeal of the 1963 State of Emergency Law [Legislation]. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/sy-emergency-law-repeal-2011. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/sy-emergency-law-repeal-2011.
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
People’s Assembly of Syria. 2011. “Repeal of the 1963 State of Emergency Law.” Legislation. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/sy-emergency-law-repeal-2011. Accessed June 21, 2026.
BibTeXLaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-bill-sy-emergency-law-repeal-2011,
title = {{Repeal of the 1963 State of Emergency Law}},
author = {{People’s Assembly of Syria}},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-04-21},
type = {Legislation},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/bills/sy-emergency-law-repeal-2011},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Retrieved via Tayyar on June 21, 2026}
}