Wilders Wins

by Jacob Laksin
FrontPage Magazine
October 14, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/513/wilders-wins

Excerpt:

It took eight months, nearly $16,000 in legal fees, and the perseverance of a Muslim lawyer, but the British government has been overruled in its notorious decision this February to ban Dutch politician Geert Wilders from entering the country.

In a decision with important implications for free speech, London's Asylum and Immigration Tribunal yesterday ruled that the British Home Office, under the authority of former home secretary Jacqui Smith, was wrong to turn Wilders away when he arrived in Heathrow airport this February to screen his anti-Islam documentary, "Fitna," for the British parliament.

Read the complete original version of this item...

receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list