Dutch court reinstates Covid curfew minutes before its start time
by Agence France-Presse from on (#5E88V)
Earlier ruling that emergency powers were wrongly used is overturned, with full hearing due on Friday
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.
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