Dutch court rejects anti-Islam MP's bias claim

by AFP
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May 23, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1417/dutch-court-rejects-anti-islam-mp-bias-claim

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THE HAGUE — An Amsterdam court rejected a claim by far right leader Geert Wilders that an earlier court decision was biased and that hate speech charges against him should be dropped.

"The request is denied," said Judge Marcel van Oosten, during a hearing broadcast on the Internet by Dutch public television. "The trial must go on."

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.

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