A Chance to Fix in Time: Analysis of Freedom of Expression in Four Years Under the Current Government and other relevant issues” under Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law and Section 4(f) of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No.(48). The areas covered by the ban are the front and back sides of the State Government office, the front side of general hospital, collective office of different township offices, Myo Nam pagoda, Taung Kwe pagoda and Loikaw’s Shardaw street. These areas were banned on protests in exact measurement and anyone who violates the official instruction will be prosecuted under Section 118 of the Penal Code or an existing law, the General Administration Department warned in the announcement with the date of January 29, 2019. 5.4 Trainings and Rallies Warned Demoso township administrator sent a warning letter to a village tract administrator for failure to apply for permission after a workshop on women and peace was organised by Kayan Women Organization in Mya Lel village, Demoso township, Kayah State on January 22, 2020. The letter stated that the organisers have to apply for permission from senior departments step by step and need approval to conduct dialogue, talk show and training. In the letter, Demoso township administrator U Nyan Lin also warned it would take action effectively against the ward or village administrator and clerk if dialogue, talk show or training were found to be conducted without permission. A ceremony against gender-based violence and towards gender equality was forced to be cancelled by the police force in 2019. 5.5 Township Municipal Bans Human Rights Awareness Event Taunggyi township municipal committee rejected an application for permission to organise a human rights awareness raising event at Bogyoke park in the township on 2018 International Human Rights Day in Shan State. The committee justified it as a public park, in the reply letter to event organiser Daw Hnin Nandar Aung from Human Rights Educator Network (HREN). The event agenda included only distributing human rights awareness pamphlets, displaying human rights awareness movies, entertaining human rights songs and quizzes about human rights. On November 27 2018, the organiser submitted the letter directly to the Chief Minister of Shan State and copied to Minister of Ethnic Bamar Affair, Shan State government and the minister of municipality. 45 Chapter (5): Deterring, Restricting, Orders, Instructions and Free Speech