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Germany: Restricting right to protest

01 September 1995

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The spokesperson for home affairs of the CSU (Christian Social Union, the ruling party in Bavaria) Wolfgang Zeitlmann stated in a radio interview on 3 August that he was in favour of restricting the right to demonstrate for foreigners living in Germany. He also stated that the right of assembly should be suspended in "emergencies" and that the present situation with the Kurdish PKK was such an emergency. Such demonstrations were, he said, "too much for a German citizen to have to be faced with". Suspending the right to assembly for foreigners would, in Mr Zeitlmann's opinion, pose no constitutional problems, because "the constitutional right to assembly applies to the Germans, and not to all the people who live with us". Berlin Anti-racist information network, August update.

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