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Dutch anti-Islam MP seeks end to hate speech trial
by AFP
Expatica
March 15, 2011
https://www.legal-project.org/1202/dutch-anti-islam-mp-seeks-end-to-hate-speech-trial
Excerpt:
Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilder's lawyer asked judges on Monday to throw out his client's hate speech trial arguing that neither they nor the prosecution had jurisdiction in the case.
"I ask you to declare the prosecution not competent," defence lawyer Bram Moszkowicz told the Amsterdam district court in a hearing the public broadcaster streamed live on the Internet.
Wilders, 47, faces five counts of giving offence to Muslims and of inciting hatred against Muslims and people of non-Western immigrant origin, particularly Moroccans, in numerous public statements since October 2006.
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