LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of February 28, 2015 No. 185-V

About the organization and holding meetings, meetings, demonstrations and other mass actions

This Law is directed to realization of constitutional right of citizens of Turkmenistan peacefully to gather, to hold meetings, meetings, demonstrations and other mass actions, ensuring public safety when holding these actions.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. The basic concepts used in this Law

For the purposes of this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) mass action - open, peace, available to everyone, the action held in the form of meeting, meeting, demonstration, street procession or picketing or in different combinations of these forms performed at the initiative of citizens of Turkmenistan, political parties, other public associations and the religious organizations including with use of vehicles. The purpose of mass action is free expression and forming of opinions, and also promotion of requirements for different questions of political, economic, cultural and other life of the country and to questions of foreign policy;

2) meeting - joint presence of citizens in the specially allotted or equipped for this purpose place for collective discussion of any socially significant questions;

3) meeting - mass presence of citizens in certain place for open expression of public opinion on topical issues of social and political nature;

4) demonstration - organized open expression of public opinion by group of citizens with use during movement of posters and other means of evident propaganda;

5) street procession - mass passing of citizens along in advance determined route for the purpose of drawing attention to any questions;

6) picketing - form of the open expression of opinions performed without movement and use of sound-amplifying technical means by placement at the picketed place of one or several citizens using posters and other means of evident propaganda;

7) the notification on holding mass action - the document by which the local executive body according to the procedure, established by this Law, is given information on holding mass action for safety and law and order in case of its carrying out;

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