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Sofia Municipality has repeatedly restricted peaceful Gaza solidarity demonstrations. On 30 September 2025 the mayor ordered Amnesty International Bulgaria to move a protest pla…

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Sofia Municipality has repeatedly restricted peaceful Gaza solidarity demonstrations. On 30 September 2025 the mayor ordered Amnesty International Bulgaria to move a protest planned near a hall hosting a Bulgaria–Israel basketball game to a site eight kilometres away, citing vague public-order concerns although the State Security Agency identified no risk. In May 2025 the Supreme Administrative Court ruled that mayors' orders moving protests are not subject to judicial review. At least five such protests were banned in October–November 2023, against 4 refusals out of 2,628 notifications between January 2020 and April 2023.
country
Bulgaria
date text
30/09/2025
entities
sources
tactics
channels
  • Administrative relocation and bans of assemblies by the mayor
consequence category
Operational Suppression
created at
2026-09-25T12:58:53.63998+00:00
date precision
day
escalation
3
harm track
Track 3 — Operational Suppression
id
BGR-005
institutional consequence
Assembly restricted; Judicial review removed
notes
Coded Sep 25 2026 from Civic Space Watch. TC-39 used for administrative restriction of assemblies (relocation/bans), not criminalisation.
occurred on
2025-09-30
trigger type
TR-02: Civic Mobilization
updated at
2026-09-25T12:58:53.63998+00:00
version
1

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