(Dutch News) If Iraq were to put Dutch jihadis on trial and sentence them to death the VVD would be prepared to accept it, MP Dilan Yesilgoz Zegerius told parliament during Wednesday’s debate about preventing Dutch jihadis from returning to this country.
Asked if the VVD would be prepared to drop its opposition to the death penalty if Dutch jihadis were tried by an Iraqi tribunal, Yesilgoz reiterated her party and the government’s opposition.
She continued: “But there comes a moment when we have to look at whether this is … the ultimate consequence of what is going on here … These people went willingly to the caliphate … at a time when the death penalty operated in Iraq.”
