Constitutional Court refuses to curb right to assembly

The Constitutional Court has refused to amend the law on assembly in order to help towns prevent neo-Nazi gatherings, the CTK news agency reported on Tuesday. Plzen City Hall, which has repeatedly had problems preventing neo-Nazi gatherings and protest marches, made a proposal for several provisions in the law on assembly to be revised, so as to make it easier to ban such events on legal grounds. The Court ruled against curbing the right to assembly in any way and also refused to abrogate a verdict according to which Plzen City Hall had banned a neo-Nazi gathering unlawfully earlier this year.