(The Penal Responsibility of the Security Forces for Excessive Use of Force During Peaceful Demonstrations: A Comparative Study)

Abstract

Demonstrations are considered a means of pressure on the ruling authority and have a stronger impact than the media or opposition forces. In the past decade, the Arab world witnessed demonstrations on the incident of a Tunisian youth who burnt himself in front of the media against the aggressive policy practiced by Zine El Abidine, President of Tunisia, where demonstrations broke out in Tunisia and then I moved to the Arab countries to overthrow many dictatorial governments in Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, and Syria, as well as against administrative corruption and quotas in Iraq and Lebanon. However, these demonstrations are not absolute, they are restricted to some of the controls or restrictions necessary to organize social life due to the necessity of human life in an organized society requires that its freedom is restricted and regulated by law so that the individual’s freedom ends at the limits of the freedom of others. If the legislator recognizes the individual’s freedom to demonstrate peacefully, at the same time he must regulate the exercise of freedom to avoid and prevent the abuses that occur in the place of the demonstration without disturbing the order.