http://www.almotamar.net صحيفة إلكترونية يومية تصدر عن حزب المؤتمر الشعبي العام (اليمن) http://www.almotamar.net/8264.htm 2011-03-23 In an extraordinary session held on Wednesday, the parliament in Yemen approved decision of the President of the Republic on declaring a state of emergency. The declaration stipulated that “Due to occurrence of a state of riot in some cities of Yemen and attacks on public and private properties, which constitute internal sedition threatening the national unity, the social fabric and stability and peace and for the necessity of keeping unity of the homeland and protection of citizens and public and private properties, a state of emergency is declared all over the republic for thirty days, beginning from Friday 18 March 2011. “