Chapter Three
Measures and Orders of the Executive Authority Enforcing Martial Law: Measures and Orders of the Executive Authority Enforcing Martial Law
Article (4)
The Executive Authority enforcing the Martial Law may take, by declaration or by written
orders, all or some of the following measures:
1. Imposition of restrictions on the individuals freedom as concerning assembly, travel,
residence, and passing by certain public places or at certain times; arresting any
suspected people or those who threaten public security and order; and sanctioning
inspection of people, places and means of transportation at any time by day or night,
without applying any provisions or procedures except those contained in the orders
issued by the Executive Authority.
2. Preventing any gathering, demonstration, sit-in, meeting, or general strike, which may be
also be dispersed using the appropriate force if necessity so requires.
3. Stopping the activity of any club, association, body, organization, center, or community
which has an adverse effect on the public security or order, or imposing restrictions on it.
4. Imposition of censorship on newspapers, publications, leaflets, drawings, and all means
of expression, propagation, and advertising prior to their publication; closing the printing
premises thereof; and seizure and confiscation of the materials that incites to disorder or
breaching the public security and order.
5. Imposition of censorship on parcels, mails, telegrams, and telephone communications,
including communications via the Worldwide Web (the Internet), the domestic
(Intranet), or any other means of communication.
6. Determining the times of opening or closing for the public stores, or ordering the closure
of some or all of them.
7. Determining the prices of goods, and preventing monopoly.
8. Withdrawal of import and export licenses of arms, ammunition, explosives; as well as
the licenses of holding or possession thereof, or ordering the seizure thereof, whenever
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they are, and closing their warehouses.
9. Banishment of non-citizens whose presence is believed to threaten the State's security or
detaining them in a safe place if setting them free can lead to breaching the public
security and order.
10. Evacuation or isolation of some areas, and organizing, identifying and restricting the
means of transportation leading thereto.
11. Temporary seizure of the means of transport or of any facility, institution, company,
store, building, or movable item, taking into account maintaining the owners' right to an
appropriate compensation.
12. Preventing people from doing certain actions, or assigning them to perform certain ones,
while maintaining their right to appropriate compensation or remuneration.
13. Imposition of any measures which the Executive Authority deems appropriate to
maintain the public security and order.
