Court rules against Lisbon City Council on protest-related costs and upholds right to protest after midnight

A Lisbon Administrative Court judge rejected the city's claim that it spent over 100,000 euros cleaning the D. Pedro IV statue, as the council failed to provide invoices or proof of work, showing only 800 euros in actual cleaning expenses. Simultaneously, the court ruled that the 1974 law banning protests after 00:30 is not an absolute prohibition, confirming that the right to demonstrate is protected by the Constitution and must be evaluated based on proportionality rather than arbitrary curfews.