189_27 interference 27. The Court considers in that connection that irrespective of whether the applicants were heading to a lawful public gathering, as they alleged, or were already in the process of conducting an unauthorised rally, as the Government claimed, their dispersal and arrest constituted an interference with their right of peaceful assembly, as did the ensuing administrative charges brought against them. The Court observes, moreover, that in the present case the Government did not dispute that there had been an interference with the right to peaceful assembly. (c) Whether the interference was justified