Yesterday the National Assembly held an extraordinary session and by 91 for and 6 against and 1 abstention votes the proposal to conduct changes and amendments in the RA law on “conducting meetings, rallies, marches, and demonstrations” was accepted by the second reading. The thing is that the changes made by the NA enable to forbid rallies, pickets and protests. It is particularly stated that the authorized bodies are illegible to forbid the mass meetings if, according to a verified source, they aim to break the constitutional order, create national, rational, religious disruption, violence, harm the state security. According to the document, those facts can be considered as verified if there is an official conclusion made by the Police or National Security. One of the amendments allows the authorities to ban a rally "if they receive trustworthy police or security service reports that such an action may threaten national security, public order or violate citizens’ constitutional rights". Another amendment offers that the authorized bodies can forbid holding collective meetings, if in the result of one hold there are murders and other criminal cases, and the authorized bodies should start the investigation and accuse the culprits. These amendments will be legally binding on the 10th day of the official adoption of this law.
