On Thursday, December 25, leaders of NGOs defending human rights and other nongovernmental organizations will stage a protest march supporting the freedom of assembly, expressing their solidarity with the organizations and people whose freedom of assembly has been violated. According to a communique of the organizers, quoted by Info-Prim Neo, the action will start at 11.00, in front of the Human Rights Center (Sfatul Tarii str., 16). Further, the participants will march to the quarters of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Parliament, the Presidency, the Government and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The participants will march with Christmas trees, wearing New Year masks (including masks of pigs and donkeys) and caps of Santa Clause. “This way, leaders of the organizations defending human rights, symbolically, will bring to a close the unachieved protests and they will draw the attention of society upon the violation of freedom of assembly in Moldova,” reads the release. The protest will be attended by Amnesty International Moldova, the Association of Independent Press, the Journalistic Investigations Center, the Medical Rehabilitation Center of Victims of Torture “MEMORIA," the Romas' National Center, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, the Human Rights Resources Center – CREDO, Hyde Park, the Institute for Human Rights, the Lawyers for Human Rights and Promo-Lex. “Imagine all leaders of the NGOs for human rights being arrested,” Evgenii Golosceapov, the executive director of Amnesty International Moldova, stated on Monday, December 22, at a round table of the NGOs’ leaders, at which the unfolding of the protest was decided.