“We uphold our opinion expressed in the appeal to the Sejm, Senate and President in December 2016 that the amended regulations of the Act on Assemblies are the excessive and unjustified limitation of the fundamental civic freedom, i.e. the freedom of organizing public assemblies. We protest against vesting the state administration with the right to take the arbitrary and non-appealable decision on limitation of this freedom by granting a privileged status to cyclic assemblies supported the state authorities.” – this is reaction of the Polish NGOs to the verdict of the Constitutional Court of March 16, in which it stated the compliance of the Act on Assemblies with the Constitutional Act.

The statement was signed by: Helsinki Human Rights Foundation, Batory Foundation, Polish Society of Anti-discrimination Law, Amnesty International Polska, Open Republic, Polish Robert Schuman Foundation.