Challenges faced by groups most at risk when exercising or seeking to exercise the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and/or of association 2014, para. 47
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Other practices not directly related to the right to freedom of peaceful assembly may also be used as leverage to keep certain groups from freely exercising such right. Those practices include the expulsion of students from universities for participating in peaceful protests (for example, in Chile), the arrest and detention of, and excessive use of force against, peaceful Tibetan students calling for freedom to study the Tibetan language (China), the threat of revocation of residency, refugee or asylum status for participating in peaceful demonstrations, the existence of institutional obstacles that prevent demonstrators from receiving competent legal assistance if charged with an assembly-related crime (including the harassment and intimidation of lawyers who provide such assistance), and the threat of termination of employment (and legal residency status linked to employment in some circumstances) for participating in peaceful protests, for foreigners and migrants.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Movement
Person(s) affected
Persons on the move
Year
2014
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2014), A/HRC/26/29, para. 47.