
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Osce) has delivered a damning report on a law passed in Cyprus this summer regulating public gatherings and parades, calling many of the law’s provisions arbitrary and warning of a chilling effect on the right to peacefully assemble .
An urgent legal opinion from the Osce had been requested by Akel MP Irini Charalambidou in mid- July, days after parliament here had






