Case 449_19

449_19 personal_scope 19. <4> From 22 to 30 June 2013 a demonstration took place at a street in inner city Munich. The authorities had imposed certain conditions. The HEDAYATZADEH ROUDSARI v. GERMANY DECISION 2participants, some fifty asylum-seekers and refugees, demonstrated against asylum legislation and asylum procedures. The demonstration took the form of a hunger strike and the participants also refrained from drinking. By choosing this form, the participants sought to attach weight to their political message. Towards the public a perception was created that participants might die; however, the hunger-striking participants did accept medical aid at all times in order to address dehydration through infusions and to restore their health to an extent that allowed them to continue their participation in the demonstration. At no point in time was there a real risk for the life of any of the participants. A team of medical doctors, composed of both emergency doctors requested by the authorities as well as volunteers, was present at all times; in the final days of the demonstration, the doctors checked on the participants every fifteen to twenty minutes.