10-day notice requirement for peaceful gathering ‘unreasonable’, court explains

PUTRAJAYA: The right to peaceful assembly, ought to include the right to organise a peaceful assembly and can only be restricted reasonably, and not prohibited, said the Court of Appeal on Monday.

Judge Justice Mah Weng Kwai, said this in the landmark judgment which held that Section 9(5) of the Peaceful Assembly Act (PAA) that criminalises the failure to give a 10-day notice to the police before a gathering to be unconstitutional.