Our Collective Conscience •  assemble in a park was granted permission to assemble on appeal, but all nine participants in the demonstration were nonetheless arrested and detained for 40 hours.96 5. 96 Dispersal of meetings in privately owned premises. Human rights defenders peacefully meeting in their own homes were also targeted. For example, seven LGBT-rights activists were arrested at a meeting in a private home. Though no one was charged, they subsequently abandoned plans to continue the organization of a conference they were planning.97 Case of the NGO Hyde Park (Moldova), AI, op. cit., note 93, p. 185. 97 Cases of Vyacheslav Andreev, Sviatlana Siarheichyk, Svyatoslav Sementsov, Tanya Ivanova, Aleksei Filipenko, Natallia Kavalchuk, and Viachaslau Bortnik (Belarus), UN SRSG, op. cit., note 15, para. 61.