An assembly is a temporary peaceful and unarmed presence of two or more individuals in any location for the purpose of formulating or expressing common opinion on issues of public interest.
In case where the assembly is not peaceful and has deviated from the normal course it could be terminated. The assembly is empowered to stop the police. The Police are empowered to terminate the assembly.
Pursuant to Article 33 of the RA Law on Freedom of Assembly:
1. The Police may terminate an assembly only if there is no other possibility of preventing disproportionate restrictions of the constitutional rights of other persons or of the public interest.
2. The Police shall address the demand to terminate the assembly to the assembly leader, who shall be obliged to inform the assembly participants thereof immediately.
3. In the absence of the assembly leader or the failure of the latter to fulfill the demand of the Police, the representative of the Police shall at least twice demand by loudspeaker that the participants terminate the assembly, setting a reasonable time period for doing so. At the same time, the Police representative shall warn the assembly participants of his power, in case of failure to terminate the assembly voluntarily during the set time period, to disperse the assembly, including the use of special means defined in the Republic of Armenia Law “On Police”.
4. The procedure of assembly termination stipulated by Paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article shall not apply to the cases, in which mass disorder has started at the assembly venue, which necessitates the implementation of urgent measures to address the situation.
