the ban on demonstrating suspended by justice | EUROtoday

The administrative court docket of New Caledonia, ruling in abstract proceedings, ordered the State, Thursday, April 17, to droop the prohibition of demonstration which was in drive on the territory for eight months with out discontinuing.

The lawyer for the League for Human Rights, Marion Ogier, who seized the jurisdiction, justified the urgency to revive the elemental proper to show by manifesting “A serious and immediate damage to the collective interests of which it ensures the defense, the fact that citizens must be able to express collectively by demonstrations their opinion on the current political process when no element suggests a resumption of violence, [et le fait] that workers must be able to express themselves collectively through rallies and manifestations in a difficult economic and social context ”.

Since the 2024 insurrection, in general, the High Commissioner of the Republic, Louis Le Franc has taken seventeen successive orders-between August 13, 2024 and March 2025, the latter worth for the month of April-for “Prohibit all gatherings, demonstrations and processions within the territory of the communes of Noumea, Dumbéa, Païta and Mont-Dore”.

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