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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. 35
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- Moreover, the assemblies of religious, ethnic and cultural minorities have been selectively targeted. In Rakhine State, Myanmar, for example, Emergency Act 144 was applied in June 2012 to prevent groups of five or more people from gathering in public areas. The Act was imposed following severe riots between Rohingya Muslims, a predominantly stateless ethnic group in western Rakhine State, and Buddhists in the area. The ban on public gatherings, however, has reportedly only been enforced against Rohingya. The ban has been extended numerous times, and was still in effect at the time of the drafting of the present report. The ban has also prevented Rohingya from gathering in local mosques to pray and celebrate religious festivals; Buddhists religious gatherings have reportedly not been disrupted.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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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. 45
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- Surveillance tactics ostensibly designed to prevent criminal activity are also often used selectively to target certain groups who plan to stage peaceful public assemblies. In Canada, for example, the Government formed a special police unit to produce intelligence updates on potential protests by indigenous peoples, primarily those fighting outside development on their ancestral land. Similarly, disproportionate force (including armed police, snipers and roadblocks) is often deployed at disfavoured protests as an intimidation tactic. Such practices should be vigorously discouraged. As the Special Rapporteur has previously noted, public assemblies should be presumed to be peaceful and lawful, until proven otherwise (A/HRC/20/27, para. 25) Surveillance tactics and disproportionate shows of force attest that authorities in some Member States often presume the opposite, and have a chilling effect on peaceful protestors, such as in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (A/HRC/23/39/Add.1, para. 32).
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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