The State Council on Monday ordered the government to lift the "general and absolute" ban on assembly in places of worship, put in place as part of the state of health emergency, because of its "disproportionate nature "
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Seized in summary proceedings by several associations and individual applicants, the highest administrative court considered in an order that this prohibition "seriously and manifestly unlawfully infringes" freedom of religion and enjoins the government to lift it "within eight days".