Case 340_48
340_48 substantive_scope
48. In this connection, the Court specifically reiterates that freedom of
peaceful assembly is capable of being exercised not only by individual
participants, but also by those organising it, including legal entities (see
Hyde Park and Others v. Moldova (nos. 5 and 6), nos. 6991/08 and
15084/08, § 32, 14 September 2010; Plattform “Ärzte für das Leben”
v. Austria, 21 June 1988, Series A no. 139; and Christians against Racism
and Fascism, cited above). That being so, the Court accepts that the assault
on the peaceful march of 17 May 2012, apart from constituting a possible
encroachment on the various rights of individual members’ of the first
applicant under the Convention, also resulted in the disruption of the
demonstration as such. That disruption in its turn affected the organiser of
the event, the first applicant, in its own corporate interest of having
messages relating to the situation of the LGBT community in Georgia
expressed by means of the planned public procession.