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.