The Cabinet has finalized a draft amendment that will ease rally restrictions.
According to the draft amendment to the Assembly and Parade Act passed on Thursday, outdoor rallies of an urgent or incidental nature will be exempt from requiring advance permission.
The change was proposed based on a ruling by the Constitutional Court in March. The court determined that the current requirement of advance permission from the authorities is in violation of the constitutionally protected freedom of assembly.
The draft amendment says that the organizers of urgent rallies will only need to notify the police of their plan in advance, while incidental cases, which are initiated spontaneously by the protestors and do not have a specific organizer, will not even need to do that.
The draft amendment will be submitted to the legislature for approval.