(Dutch News) Foreign minister Stef Blok has asked the US to explain reports that several Dutch lawyers have been refused a visa for the US because of their work defending terrorism suspects, the Volkskrant said on Friday.
“It is of great importance that lawyers can do their jobs independently and defend suspects,” the paper quotes him as saying. “At the same time, I must acknowledge the fact [that] every country is free to set its own rules for admitting foreigners.”
On Thursday it emerged that two lawyers have pulled out of one [of] the Netherlands’ biggest terrorism cases because they are worried their involvement will have an impact on travelling to the US.
