Protest permit

A protest permit to hold or parade permit is permission granted by a governmental agency for a demonstration to be held in a particular venue at a particular time. Failing to obtain a permit may lead to charges of parading without a permit. The requirement of a permit is sometimes denounced as an infringement of free speech,[1] as permits are denied on spurious grounds or protestors are corralled into free speech zones. Permits are sometimes denied on grounds that the protest will create a security risk.[2] There seems to be evidence that the available venues for protests are shrinking in number; that citizens have experienced increasing difficulty in gaining unrestricted access to them; and that such venues are no longer where most people typically congregate in large numbers.[3] In Washington, DC, the National Park Service Police, U.S. Capitol Police, and Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia have an elaborate permitting system.[4] Many famous people such as Martin Luther King Jr. have been arrested for protesting without a permit.[5]

Amnesty International's spokesperson declares: "A forbidding of a protest is legal on an international point of view only if it is motivated for a precise threat, and only if there is no other available general restriction to maintain order"[6]

Per country

France

In France many protests have been forbidden. Israelian conflict related protests have been routinely forbidden. Security risks have been brought for it, with a focus at protecting Jewish communities, which have undergone some attacks. Also, the aim was to avoid confrontation between pro-israelian and pro-palestinian protesters. Jean-Luc-Mélenchon of left wing party of La France insoumise declared " "France is the only country where all support protests for palestinians are forbidden, and protests against israelian far-right government, it is obviously to create power incidendents and stigmatise that cause".[6]

Covid-19

As to forbid general protests

During the covid outbreak the need to prevent gathering has been used regularly to forbid protests.

About covid-19 restrictions

Such as a BLM protest in Ireland where the government tweeted that it had been in Dublin was forbidden on 3 June 2020.[7] Many protests also occurred against covid restrictions or about the response given to the virus.

See also

References
  1. The Interaction of State Repression, Protest Form and Protest Sponsor Strength During the Transition from Communism in Minsk, Belarus, 1990-1995, vol. 6, Mobilization: An International Quarterly, Fall 2001, pp. 129–150
  2. D Mitchell, LA Staeheli (2005), Permitting protest: parsing the fine geography of dissent in America, International Journal of Urban
  3. Places of Protest: The Public Forum in Principle and Practice, vol. 11, Mobilization: An International Quarterly, June 2006, pp. 229–247
  4. Donatella Della Porta; Herbert Reiter, Policing protest: the control of mass demonstrations in Western democracies
  5. Suggs, Ernie (3 April 2020). "Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest record in Georgia county to be expunged". The Philadelphia Tribune. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  6. "Manifestation interdite : le conflit israélo-palestinien divise la classe politique" [Forbidden demonstration: french political class divided.]. LExpress.fr (in French). 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-05-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Lally, Conor; McClements, Freya. "Black Lives Matter protest planned for Dublin is cancelled". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2021-05-16.


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