Myanmar's military-dominated parliament has passed a bill allowing citizens to protest peacefully, a lawmaker said on Thursday - the latest in a rapid series of reformist moves in the isolated country.
The bill, which needs to be signed off by President Thein Sein to become law, requires that demonstrators 'inform the authorities five days in advance,' said upper house member Aye Maung, of the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party.
Protesters would be allowed to hold flags and party symbols but must avoid government buildings, schools, hospitals and embassies, he told AFP.
The bill came before parliament this week, four years after a mass monk-led protest known as the 'Saffron Revolution' was brutally quashed, with the deaths of at least 31 people and the arrest of hundreds of monks, many still locked up.
The bill, which needs to be signed off by President Thein Sein to become law, requires that demonstrators 'inform the authorities five days in advance,' said upper house member Aye Maung, of the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party.
Protesters would be allowed to hold flags and party symbols but must avoid government buildings, schools, hospitals and embassies, he told AFP.
The bill came before parliament this week, four years after a mass monk-led protest known as the 'Saffron Revolution' was brutally quashed, with the deaths of at least 31 people and the arrest of hundreds of monks, many still locked up.
