Lviv, June 21 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The District Administrative Court of Lviv has ruled to ban mass rallies in the city on June 22, the press service of Lviv City Council reported with reference to the head of the legal department at the city council, Helena Payonkevych.
The court sustained the lawsuit by Lviv City Council and banned holding of mass rallies in Lviv on June 22, except those envisaged by the decision of the city’s mayor and head of the regional state administration," the press service quoted head of the legal department of the city council.
Lviv City Council asked the District Administrative Court of Lviv to restrict the right to hold rallies for NGOs Jews against Anti-Semitism, Jews against Hurvits and Sokil, which earlier submitted applications to hold rallies in one place and at one time on June 22.
"We are asking the court to ban all of the rallies, because the legal department has grounds to believe that the holding of these rallies on June 22 may pose a threat to public safety," Payonkevych said.
The events to mark the 70th anniversary of the mass shooting of residents of Ukraine’s western regions by NKVD troops in late June 1941 will be held in Lviv on June 22.
Earlier, representatives of the Communist Party of Ukraine said that they would hold rallies in Lviv under red banners to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War (Second World War).
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