An appeal over a temporary curfew struck down just days before was heard Friday as the Dutch Senate debated legislation to preserve the nightly stay-at-home order.
The leader of the coronavirus-skeptical group Viruswaarheid, or Virustruth, Willem Engel, and the group’s legal advisor, Jeroen Pols, left, enter court for an appeal hearing on the Dutch government’s curfew in The Hague, Netherlands, on Friday. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) Judges in The Hague heard an appeal Friday over the Netherlands’ nationwide curfew after a lower court struck down the coronavirus restriction just days before.
While The Hague Court of Appeal was listening to arguments between the government and an anti-lockdown activist group known as Viruswaarheid – Dutch for Virustruth – the Dutch Senate was debating legislation to enshrine the nightly stay-at-home order into law.