The Statement of the RA Police is obviously a Grave Violation of the RA law on Freedom of Assemblies
12:37, July 26, 2013 | News | Freedom of Assembly and Association | Police
It implies threatening of the assembly participants instead of ensuring their security…The RA Police don’t absolutely provide assessment regarding the unlawful actions of the Police officials and other officials as well as the evidently unlawful actions by the so-called “skinheads” patronized by them that were recorded in numerous video materials. Via its statement, the RA Police act not as the one to ensure but to impede the security for the exercising of the citizens’ constitutional rights… Being seemingly concerned with the “moral and psychological condition of the driver carrying out the transportation of passengers”, whereby the security of our country’s citizens is conditioned, the RA Police are in fact concerned with the moral and psychological condition of the roadway owners so that they are able to implement their business interests without any obstacles.…
The assembly participants didn’t violate any order, didn’t initiate any infringement; instead, the infractions were initiated on the part of the RA Police officials by hindering the exercising of legal, constitutional rights of the assembly participants, moreover, by patronizing the provocateurs while failing to prevent the illegal actions and threats of the same provocateurs..
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Article18. Proposing conditions and limitations on conducting assemblies
3. The limitations imposed on conducting the assembly may not distort the assembly purpose or isolate the assembly participants in space, as well as by means of changing the time of conducting the assembly in a way that significantly reduces its significance and potential impact on the public audience targeted by the organizers, or in any other way result in de-facto prohibition of the assembly.
Article 32. Responsibilities of the Police during Assemblies
1. The Police:
1) Shall be obliged, to immediately upon receiving information on an assembly, designate its representative and inform the organizer and the authorized body thereof;
2) Shall be obliged to ensure the presence of its representative at the assembly;
3) Shall be obliged to remove from the assembly venue persons that rudely violate the natural and peaceful course of the assembly, if it is not possible to maintain it otherwise;
4) Shall be obliged to ensure free access to buildings, structures, and other premises located at the assembly venue or adjacent to it.
2. If the assembly is conducted in violation of the notification requirements enshrined in Chapter 2 of this Law, then the Police shall be obliged to inform by a loudspeaker that the assembly is unlawful and that the participants may be held liable. If the assembly is peaceful, then the Police shall be obliged to facilitate the assembly.