Lviv City Council drafts lawsuit to ban rallies on June 22

Lviv City Council has drafted a lawsuit to ban the holding of mass rallies by non-governmental organizations on June 22.

The council's press service reported that Lviv City Council would ask 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," the head of the legal department at the city council, Helena Payonkevych, said.

As reported, 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). Head of Kharkiv Regional State Administration Mykhailo Dobkin also said that he planned to come to Lviv on June 22, but then he allegedly abandoned his intention.