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The Constitutional Court recognized the right of protest shares to seal the mouth with tape, make drawings on the face or glue stickers with campaigning. The decision made on July 7 is published on the website of the KS.
Students from Samara addressed the Constitutional Court. In April 2014, during the "Day of Silence Day", they sealed their mouths with tape, for which they were detained by the police. After the action, one of the activists was fined 10 thousand rubles. Students challenged a number of provisions of the Law on rallies in the Constitutional Court, in particular, the ban on shares to hide their face. In addition, according to the applicants, bringing to administrative responsibility for hiding a person on formal grounds contradicts constitutional norms.
The court explained that the shares participants can cover their faces with scarves and scarves due to weather conditions or use bandages, gauze dressings or respirators for medical indicators. In addition, demonstrators are allowed to use their faces as an object of visual agitation, glue stickers or adhesive tape on them. At the same time, the use of masks, balaclava and stockings to conceal the face remains prohibited. In addition, the police should pay attention to the motives and goals of camouflage on the faces of the demonstrators and evaluate their "impact on safety and public order," the KS decision notes.
The Constitutional Court also explained that the authorities should not excessively control the activities of organizers and participants in public events and unreasonably limit people in the right to freedom of peaceful assemblies.
"In cases where the organizers or participants of the public event behave destructively, in particular they clearly intend to perform or, moreover, commit any actions that threaten public order and (or) public security, the state - in fulfillment of their constitutional obligation to protect the rights and freedoms of a person and citizen - should use to prevent and suppress manifestations that do not meet the creatures of peaceful meetings, all legal means," In this case, in this case in the decision of the Constitutional Court.
The Constitutional Court also admitted that the norms of "Hyde Parks" do not contain restrictions for different types of public events. A notification of the holding of shares in such places, subject to the maximum number of participants, is not required.
From March 29 to April 7, 2014, a week was held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other large cities against homophobia, bifobia and transfobia. Her main slogan was - "We are talking about love, not about sex." LGBT organization held lectures, round tables, legal and psychological seminars, exhibitions and concerts, as well as several public actions. So, on April 1, in St. Petersburg, on a small garden LGBT activists gave passers-by bouquets of flowers tied with rainbow ribbons.
On April 6, about 50 people walked along Moscow streets with sealed mouths in protest against homophobic violence and silence LGBT problems ( 