Case 416_4
416_4 interference
4. The applicants complained under Article 5 of the Convention that their
arrest, transfer to the police station and subsequent detention there for several
hours had been unlawful. They further complained under Article 11, taken
alone and in conjunction with Article 14, that the authorities had failed to
enable the public gathering to proceed peacefully, that their interference with
the applicants’ freedom of peaceful assembly had been arbitrary, and that the
police arrested only the participants in the LGBTI public event and
disregarded the breaches of public order by their opponents.
THE COURT’S ASSESSMENT
I. JOINDER OF THE APPLICATIONS