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throughout 2018 and 2019 during the evenings. The Constitutional Court stated that Bonnici's orders amounted to a "systematic" censorship that led to an "absurd" and "divisive" situation that breached blogger and activist Emmanuel Delia and others'
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for an appeal against the Marsascala recycling plant. This appeal was initially turned down, but later, but later the Civil Court in its Constitutional jurisdiction decided that the appeal should be heard again.
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