Syria 'To Lift Emergency Law' -- Al Jazeera
Syrian government adviser confirms to Al Jazeera that the country's emergency law is to be lifted but fails to say when.
A Syrian government adviser has confirmed to Al Jazeera that the country's emergency law is to be lifted.
Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, told Al Jazeera's Cal Perry in the capital Damascus on Sunday the law would "absolutely" be lifted, but failed to give a timetable.
The repeal of the emergency law, in place since the 1963 coup that brought the Baath Party to power, has been a key demand of protesters who have taken to the streets in recent days to demand greater political freedoms.
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