The college of law at the University of Baghdad discussed the doctoral dissertation in the private law of the student (Abdullah Khamis Ali), tagged with (civil liability of the government for damages arising from demonstrations – a comparative study), on Thursday, 26/9/2024 on the conference hall at the college.
The dissertation aimed at the fact that freedom of demonstration represents one of the pillars of democracy as an optimal political system whose success is closely linked to its guarantee, as the relationship between them is direct. The more freedom of expression and demonstration is truly guaranteed, the longer that system is maintained and proven, and the more that freedom is consolidated, the political system is on the verge of collapse, regardless of the security and economic strength.
The dissertation included three chapters, the first of which dealt with the concept of freedom of demonstration, the second chapter dealt with the civil liability of the government for damages arising from demonstrations, and the third chapter dealt with the effects of civil liability of the government for damages arising from demonstrations and means of payment.
The dissertation came up with several recommendations, the most important of which is the hope of the Iraqi legislator to regulate all legal aspects of the freedom of demonstration in an independent legislation and not to keep this freedom without drawing its boundaries that separate it from other conflicting legal interests, such as the right of passage on public roads and the idea of public order in order to ensure that none of them affects the other in an unacceptable way, to encourage the masses who wish to demonstrate towards providing a notification in the form specified by the law through the adoption of rules of civil liability based on the distinction between demonstrations that it is forbidden to campaign while demonstrating by the ban is limited to so-called weapons by nature .
