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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Thursday defended the government’s ban on the far-right Compact magazine, a day after a court provisionally lifted the measure. Faeser said Germany’s Basic Law “expressly provides an instrument to ban organizations in order to protect democracy from enemies of the constitution.” Speaking in Berlin, Faeser said her ministry would not back down in the case, which is being considered by Germany’s Federal Administrative Court in the eastern city of Leipzig. In an expedited ruling on Wednesday, the court raised doubts about the proportionality of the ban and…

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