“It is for the government, which is responsible for the maintenance of public order, to decide whether meetings, including trade union meetings, may in particular circumstances endanger public order and security, and to take any necessary preventive measures"
CFA Compilation of 2018, para. 225
The authorities should resort to the use of force only in situations where law and order is seriously threatened. The intervention of the forces of law and order should be in due proportion to the danger to law and order that the authorities are attempting to control and governments should take measures to ensure that the competent authorities receive adequate instruction so as to eliminate the danger entailed by the use of excessive violence when controlling the demonstrations which might result in a disturbance of the peace.”
CFA Compilation of 2018, para. 217
Civil liberties: Interference in assembly