{"id":238343,"date":"2020-04-16T11:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238343"},"modified":"2021-09-26T19:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T23:04:16","slug":"german-court-rules-blanket-ban-on-demonstrations-unconstitutional-as-merkel-plans-easing-of-covid-19-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/german-court-rules-blanket-ban-on-demonstrations-unconstitutional-as-merkel-plans-easing-of-covid-19-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"German court rules blanket ban on demonstrations \u2018UNCONSTITUTIONAL\u2019 as Merkel plans easing of Covid-19 restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Yes, it\u2019s unconstitutional everywhere!<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 health concerns are not grounds for a general ban on public demonstrations, a German court has ruled, after activists took a case arguing that Berlin\u2019s current restrictions on public gatherings are unconstitutional.<br \/>\nIf they adhere to social distancing rules, Germans should have the right to hold political protests, the Constitutional Court said in the Thursday ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Activists in Giessen, a town in the federal state of Hesse, had planned a protest march to denounce new rules that ban gatherings of more than two people in public, arguing that they were in breach of the country\u2019s constitution and citizens\u2019 right to free assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The court agreed, saying that an outright ban on such gatherings would be unconstitutional and asked authorities to review the measures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/486048-germany-court-ban-unconstitutional\/?fbclid=IwAR1yatmdMd0sIA80tfDSM9WjXmNMOPSsKiiFlm2fQ_jZ6ce-Fx2plOaJ2nk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/486048-germany-court-ban-unconstitutional\/?fbclid=IwAR1yatmdMd0sIA80tfDSM9WjXmNMOPSsKiiFlm2fQ_jZ6ce-Fx2plOaJ2nk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Yes, it\u2019s unconstitutional everywhere! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":337468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}