70_125 interference 125. The applicants submitted that there had clearly been interferences with their freedom of assembly with regard to both events they had intended to organise. It was not them who had appealed to the Municipal Council, it was the Sofia District Court that had referred the appeal to a nonexistent body – the Executive Committee of the People’s Council. It was therefore hardly surprising that that body had not ruled on the appeal. It would be farfetched to conclude that in these circumstances the second ban had ceased to have effect. Neither the applicants, nor the police, which were under orders to prevent the applicants from holding the event, had been informed in due time about the referring of the appeal.