Censuren er også ophævet, ligesom privatejede aviser snart får lov til at gå i trykken i det så længe isolerede asiatiske land – sker efter langvarigt internationalt pres på den nye civile regering.
The reformist government of Burma has abolished a 25-year-old ban on public gatherings of more than five people, BBC online reports Tuesday.
The order dates from 1988, when a new military government took power after crushing pro-democracy protests. The public-gatherings ban was commonly used in the years immediately after 1988 as a tool to crush dissent against successive military regimes.
An end to the ban has been demanded by the international community and has been widely flouted at protests in recent years.
Officials said that basic rights, such as freedom of expression, were now constitutionally guaranteed.
Since the elected government of President Thein Sein took office ind 2011 his administration has continued a process of political liberalisation, including the revocation (ophævelse) of strict censorship.
In December, the government announced that privately-owned newspapers would be allowed to operate from April 2013 for the first time in almost 50 years.
It informed journalists in August that they would no longer have to submit their work to state censors before publication as they had been doing for about half a century.
One of the few unduly repressive measures that continues to remain in place is an electronics law which restricts email access and which was widely used by the military government to silence dissenting voices.
