(Dutch News) An increasing number of asylum requests that would have been granted previously are now being turned down because of new rules governing “credibility,” current affairs show Nieuwsuur reported on Monday evening. The programme spoke to lawyers, refugee agency Vluchtelingenwerk and […]
(AP) Prosecutors demanded a 14-year sentence Monday for a Pakistani Muslim leader accused of inciting the murder of anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, the leader of the party that won last year’s general election in the Netherlands. Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali did not […]
(NL Times) The coalition parties want the government to investigate whether parts of Syria can be declared safe so that Syrian asylum seekers can be sent back. PVV leader Geert Wilders wants a debate on the topic next month and he is […]
(Dutch News) Syria is safe enough to stop allowing refugees from there into the Netherlands and to send some back, Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right PVV, said on social media. As a start, the Netherlands should close its borders to all […]
(NL Times) Testimony from an expert in the Arabic language and culture indicated that the manner in which almost a hundred graves were vandalized at [a] Utrecht cemetery in May fits in with the “jihadist ideology.” Prosecutors presented more information about their […]
(NL Times) The deadly attack in the German city of Solingen, which was claimed by the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS), “unfortunately also fits into the current threat picture in the Netherlands,” Minister David van Weel (Justice and Security) wrote on X. […]
(NL Times) Two 21-year-old men from Utrecht and Vleuten were arrested in May of this year on suspicion of joining a terrorist organization, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) reported. They attempted to travel to ISIS-controlled areas. The man from Vleuten is also […]
(NL Times) A Dutch woman suspected of traveling to Syria to join a terrorist organization is “deeply affected” by the “bitter” accusation that she deployed her underage son in the ISIS armed struggle. Ayada K. said this on Thursday during the first […]
(NL Times) The Netherlands rightly rejected the asylum application of a woman who traveled back and forth to Syria at least six times, the Council of State ruled on Wednesday. The Syrian woman left her country of origin for Egypt in 2013, […]
(NL Times) A female outbound traveler who was brought back from Syria with the help of the United States last May will appear in court for the first time on Thursday. The Public Prosecution Service is prosecuting 47-year-old Ayada K. for a […]
(NL Times) The court of appeals in The Hague has sentenced Pegida frontman Edwin Wagensveld to a conditionally suspended community service of 40 hours for group insult. The frontman for the radical far-right group had compared Muslims to Nazis. He was not […]
(NL Times) Jordan has summoned the Dutch ambassador on Thursday to explain a “racist” post by PVV leader Geert Wilders on X earlier in the evening. Wilders wrote that Jordan is “the only real” Palestinian state, responding to the news that the […]
(NL Times) The group insult case against Deputy Prime Minister Mona Keijzer has been dropped, the lawyer representing the complainants told NU.nl. She won’t be prosecuted for saying that “hatred of Jews is almost part of the culture” in countries where Islam […]
(Jerusalem Post) To stop rising antisemitism in the Netherlands and Europe political leaders must put an end to open border mass immigration and reverse the cultural relativist failure to foster integration, Dutch Party for Freedom founder and leader Geert Wilders told the […]
(NL Times) Authorities in the Netherlands will extradite 27-year-old Chahinez K., who is suspected of involvement in an attempt to assassinate Spanish politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras. The Den Bosch woman was the first of three people arrested in the Netherlands in connection with […]
(NL Times) A debate in the Eerste Kamer, the Dutch Senate, was cut short by the chair when the topic of controversial past statements made by Asylum and Migration Minister Marjolein Faber were brought up by Senator Farah Karimi. The Senate was […]
(Reuters) Dutch anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders saw ministers from his party sworn in for the first time ever on Tuesday, as the Netherlands’ new right-wing government was installed almost a year after the previous administration resigned. Far-right leader Wilders, the clear winner […]
(NL Times) A few days before a Cabinet containing ministers from the far-right PVV is installed for the first time, party leader Geert Wilders lashed out fiercely against Islam in a post on social media. Wilders said the religion “is a disgusting, […]
(NL Times) The 38-year-old Tunisian man arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of shooting Spanish politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras was also preparing to assassinate an Iranian activist and journalist, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) said on Wednesday. The Iranian individual was not […]
(Dutch News) Prospective asylum minister Marjolein Faber has retracted her use of Nazi-era language on immigration, but insisted her concerns about the impact of asylum on the “demographics of the Netherlands” were well founded. The PVV MP came under intense questioning over […]
(NL Times) In the Schoof I Cabinet, integration will fall under the Ministry of Justice and Security, not the Ministry of Social Affairs, as it currently does, Ingrid Coenradie of the far-right PVV, the candidate for state secretary of justice and security, […]
(NL Times) Police in the Netherlands arrested a 38-year-old Tunisian man in connection with the attempted assassination of Spanish populist politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras. The suspect was captured in Haarlem on June 6, according to the Noord-Holland district of the Public Prosecution Service […]
(NL Times) Two major international operations to break up the propaganda and communications channels of terrorist organizations were carried out this week, leading authorities in 13 countries to take action against servers, web hosting services and websites, Europol announced on Friday. The […]
(Breitbart) A liberal, women-led Berlin mosque known as a haven for gay Muslims was a target for an Islamic State terror cell in Germany, prosecutors say as the group goes to court. A group of seven immigrants arrested in 2023 across Germany […]
(Dutch News) The threat of a terrorist attack in the Netherlands has increased slightly over the past few months but remains at level 4, or substantial, the government’s counter-terrorism agency NCTV said on Tuesday. Level four means there is a realistic likelihood […]
(NL Times) Khaled Al N. from Joure allegedly confessed to killing his 18-year-old daughter Ryan in emails sent to the Telegraaf. The Syrian man said he took his daughter’s life and fled to Istanbul. Sources previously told the newspaper that Ryan’s very […]
(NL Times) Ryan Al Najjar, an 18-year-old woman from Joure whose body was found a week ago in [Lelystad], was the victim of an “honor killing,” people who know the family told the Telegraaf. According to them, Ryan’s father killed her because […]
(NL Times) The police arrested two men for involvement in the death of 18-year-old Ryan al Najjar from Joure. The young woman’s body was found in the water along the Knardijk in Lelystad a week after she disappeared from her hometown. Al […]
(NL Times) According to BBB parliamentarian Mona Keijzer, “Jew hatred is almost part of the culture” in countries where Islam is the dominant religion. The BBB’s “prime minister candidate” said that on the talk show Sophie & Jeroen while discussing asylum seekers […]
(NL Times) A slim majority of parliamentarians voted on Tuesday in favor of a motion calling for the Cabinet to criminalize the statement, “From the River to the Sea.” The measure passed 74-73 during a roll call vote in the Tweede Kamer, […]
(Reuters) The incoming Dutch government led by nationalist Geert Wilders’ PVV party will aim to pursue its curbs on immigration by opting out of European Union migration rules, setting up a clash with Brussels before it has even taken office. Wilders won […]
(Reuters) Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders on Wednesday said a deal had been reached to form what was set to be the most right-wing government in the Netherlands in decades, almost six months after a major election victory. Wilders, who has influenced Dutch […]
(Brussels Times) The leader of the Dutch branch of anti-Muslim organisation Pegida, Edwin Wagensveld, burnt a Koran in the city of Arnhem (in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border) on Saturday afternoon. An earlier attempt by Wagensveld in […]
(NL Times) Two women suspected of terrorism have been transported to the Netherlands with their two children, caretaker Ministers Dilan Yeşilgöz (Justice and Security) and Hanke Bruins Slot (Foreign Affairs) told the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch Parliament. The […]
(NL Times) The sisters Amina E. and Amal E. were convicted by the District Court of Rotterdam on allegations of preparing terrorist acts, and participating with Islamic State (IS). The younger of the two, 25-year-old Amina E., was ordered to serve three […]
(Dutch News) The European Court of Human Rights has found fault with the Netherlands for detaining a Syrian asylum seeker after he was released from prison. M.B., as he is identified in court records, was convicted of membership of a terrorist organisation […]
(Dutch News) At least 10 planned terrorist attacks in Europe were discovered and halted by western security services in 2023, the Dutch security service AIVD said on Tuesday. People were arrested in the Netherlands in four of the foiled attacks, which ranged from concrete preparations to […]
(NL Times) A Dutch man is suing the Dutch state and National Police for unjustly placing him on a terrorism watchlist and unlawfully sharing his data with other countries. He has been experiencing problems at border crossings worldwide for years even though […]
(NL Times) A simple transaction between brothers has sparked a legal battle in the Netherlands. Three ING Bank customers are suing the financial institution after the bank flagged a money transfer as suspicious and launched an investigation tied to potential terrorist financing. […]
(Times of Israel) A stash of weapons was found hidden under a pine tree in southern Bulgaria last week. The arms were linked to four suspected Hamas members arrested in Germany and the Netherlands in December on suspicion of preparing an attack […]
(NL Times) Islam teacher Musa Ibn Yusuf of the Islamic center Ar-Rahmah in [Veenendaal] is urging Dutch Muslims to hate people of other faiths. “There is no solidarity with Christians,” he said in a podcast on YouTube, De Telegraaf reports. “Solidarity is […]
(NL Times) The Ministry of Public Health appointed Amsterdam UMC to be the expertise center on helping women after female genital mutilation. Women who have been circumcised can have all kinds of psychological, physical, and sexual complaints. The Amsterdam hospital will study […]
(NL Times) Police in the Netherlands are looking for witnesses to help connect at least a dozen beheadings in Syria a decade ago to a suspected terrorist arrested in Zuid-Holland. The suspect, nicknamed Abu Khaled al Amni, applied for asylum in the […]
(Dutch News) An Iranian software engineer who was accused of developing spyware and banned from the European Union for 20 years should not have been deported from the Netherlands, judges have ruled. Security services said the man, named in court papers as […]
(NL Times) Police in Italy arrested an individual suspected of being actively involved in terrorist organization ISIS shortly after he managed to fly from Eindhoven Airport to Rome Fiumicino Airport on Monday morning. The suspect, identified only by the initials S.I., was […]
(Ynet) A Dutch airport security worker at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport harassed, detained and humiliated two Israeli women, one of them a former hostage held in Gaza, who were in the Netherlands for an advocacy visit sponsored by the Defense Ministry. The Israeli […]
(Novinite) German investigators have unearthed a suspected Hamas weapons stockpile in Bulgaria, as reported by Die Zeit. The discovery, confirmed by Deutsche Welle, Spiegel, and ARD, came after the arrest of Hamas-affiliated individuals in mid-December. A mobile phone seized during the arrest […]
(NL Times) An attack on Rabbi Aryeh Leib [Heintz] in the Overvecht shopping center in Utrecht last week has left his daughter, Devora, shaken. “It made me very stressed, and I couldn’t sleep,” the 17-year-old girl told the Telegraaf. “We are no […]
(NL Times) The police arrested a 40-year-old man from Utrecht who is suspected of being involved in an incident last Friday in which a rabbi was allegedly hit in the head at the Overvecht shopping center. The suspect reported himself to the […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has [called] for the suspension and firing of the board at Islamic school foundation Stichting Islamitische School Amsterdam. The prosecutors have sent an application to the court in Amsterdam. The foundation has three Islamic schools […]
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