Tuesday, February 16, 2021

#THENETHERLANDS: Courts Battle Over First Curfew Since Nazi Occupation

[world politics news]


A Dutch appeals court has ruled that the government’s controversial coronavirus curfew must stay in place until a hearing later this week to decide whether the measure is legal.

The government had been stunned when a lower court judge ruled earlier that it must immediately lift the Netherlands’ first curfew since the second world war because it had wrongly used emergency powers to invoke it.

The case against the curfew – which sparked the worst riots in the Netherlands for decades – was launched by the Viruswaarheid (Virus Truth) group, which has led a series of protests against coronavirus measures in the Netherlands.

[FULL STORY HERE]

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