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People outside a COVID-19 rapid test center waiting to get a day pass to visit shops and cultural institutions, in Weimar, Germany, on March 29, 2021. Karina Hessland/Reuters
A German court has sentenced one of its own judges to prison for ruling against the government’s mask mandates.
In 2021, Judge Christian Dettmar struck down a local government ordinance that required schoolchildren to wear masks in the German state of Thuringia. The case made headlines across Germany.