The right to hold peaceful demonstrations and public political meetings is a fundamental democratic right enshrined in international human rights' law. In present-day Ethiopia too, this right has been entrenched both under 'Art. 30 Sub-Art. (1)' of the 1995 Constitution of the FDRE and 'Art. 3. of Proclamation No. 3/1991', which still remains in effect for lack of a newer and fuller piece of legislation.
The only proclamation on the subject, cited hereof, was officially enacted for the very first time way back in August 1991, in accordance with Art. 1 of the then-Transitional Period Charter, otherwise known as 'the July Charter'. This was in an attempt to acquaint the procedure for peaceful demonstrations and public political meetings in the country, prior to the adoption of the present constitution.
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