Government to voluntarily pay over €3,000 damages for violating right of assembly
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made a decision in the case of the Civil Association for Liquidation of Consequences of the Moltov-Ribbentrop Pact, whereby it accepted the Moldovan Government's request to voluntarily pay €3,025 damages to the association by February for violating the right of assembly, Info-Prim Neo reports.
According to the association's chairman Iacob Golovca, the Chisinau City Hall in 2005 banned the organization from holding a meeting to mark 87 years of the Great Union of 1918 in the requested place.
The association asked for an authorization to hold the event in the Great National Assembly Square, but it was allowed to assemble in front of the Railway Terminal. The City Hall also modified the itinerary of the mach that the association intended to stage. Consequently, the association filed a complaint against Moldova to the ECHR.
This is the first case won by the Civil Association for Liquidation of Consequences of the Moltov-Ribbentrop Pact at the ECHR. The money obtained as damages will be used to improve the association's work.
