(NL Times) At least ten municipalities commissioned undercover investigators to visit mosques and collect sensitive information on administrators, imams and teachers, the NRC reported. The municipalities that ordered the investigations included Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Zoetermeer. Utrecht halted the investigations after concerns about […]
(NL Times) The Netherlands will soon bring back more women affiliated with the terrorist organization ISIS, the AD reported. On Monday, a session will be held in the Rotterdam court regarding 13 women suspected of being affiliated with ISIS. The judge stated […]
(Dutch News) Judges will decide next week if nine young men from Eindhoven should remain in custody while police continue to investigate them for possible terrorist offences. The nine were, according to the public prosecution department, planning to launch a terrorist attack, […]
(NL Times) Conversations intercepted by domestic intelligence service AIVD led to the arrests of nine men in Eindhoven on allegations that they planned to carry out a terrorist attack. The men, all Dutch citizens, discussed the possibility of targeting Prime Minister Mark […]
(NL Times) The nine terrorist suspects arrested in Eindhoven one week ago did not have a concrete plan to attack politicians, lawyer of two of the suspect[s] Peter Plasman said. The suspects are alleged to have prepared to target Prime Minister Mark […]
(NL Times) Prime Minister Mark Rutte was the apparent target of a terrorist plot crafted by ISIS sympathizers, which prompted the arrests this week of nine men in Eindhoven. They were also considering attacks on PVV leader Geert Wilders and FvD leader Thierry […]
(NL Times) The nine terror suspects arrested in Eindhoven last week will remain in pre-trial detention for two weeks longer. The examining magistrate of the court in Rotterdam remanded them into custody on Wednesday. The men, aged between 18 and 31, are said […]
(Dutch News) The Hague city councillor Arnoud van Doorn was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of planning to kill prime minister Mark Rutte, the AD reported on Tuesday afternoon. Van Doorn, a former councillor for the far-right PVV who went on to […]
(NL Times) Nine men were arrested in Eindhoven on Thursday under suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist act, and training to perpetrate the crime. The nine suspects allegedly sympathize with the jihadist principles of ISIS, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) said […]
(NL Times) Aziz A. was sentenced to 15 years and nine months in prison on Monday for, among other things, leading a terrorist organization and preparing terrorist crimes. A., who suddenly popped up in De Balie debate center in Amsterdam in 2017, […]
(NL Times) Faction leader of the Party of Unity in The Hague, Arnoud van Doorn, will appear in court on Tuesday, due to anti-Semitic tweets the council member posted a few years ago. The lawyer of the 55-year-old, Anis Boumanjal, said he […]
(AP) Germany and the Netherlands have suspended any deportations of migrants to Afghanistan due to the tense security situation as Taliban insurgents make sweeping gains in the Central Asian country. Almost 30,000 Afghans in Germany, many of them failed asylum-seekers, are currently […]
(Reuters) Six EU member states have warned the bloc’s executive against halting deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers arriving in Europe despite major advances of Taliban militants in their country. The Taliban, fighting to reimpose strict Islamic law after their 2001 ouster, […]
(BBC) A man has appeared in court in London accused of plotting to kill an exiled Pakistani political activist. Muhammad Gohir Khan, 31, was charged on 28 June with conspiring with others unknown to murder Ahmad Waqass Goraya in the Netherlands between […]
(Courthouse News) A Dutch court on Friday found a Syrian asylum-seeker guilty of committing war crimes in Syria and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. The District Court of The Hague found that Ahmad al Khedr had participated in the execution […]
(Dutch News) The cabinet has been given three months to show it is making an effort to repatriate five Dutch women from Kurdish prison camps in Syria so that they can attend their trials on terrorism charges in person, broadcaster NOS has […]
(Dutch News) Around 15 Dutch women who joined IS forces during the Syrian civil war escaped from Kurdish detention camps in the past year, ministers have admitted. Caretaker foreign affairs minister Sigrid Kaag and defence minister Ank Bijleveld told parliament that around […]
(NL Times) The Supreme Court of the Netherlands upheld a guilty verdict against PVV leader Geert Wilders on Tuesday for inciting hatred and violence against a group of people. The verdict brings the case against the leader of the right-wing nationalist political […]
(Dutch News) The Netherlands will not make a habit of bringing back its nationals who joined IS and are now in Syrian camps, but cannot rule out more women being repatriated, justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus told MPs on Thursday. “We look at […]
(Dutch News) A Syrian man who has been a refugee in the Netherlands since 2014 should be jailed for 27 years for his role in the killing of a Syrian army officer, the Dutch public prosecution service said on Friday. Ahmad al […]
(Dutch News) A further eight Dutch women who went to live in IS-controlled parts of Syria are now hoping to return to the Netherlands, following the successful repatriation of Ilham B at the beginning of June, the Telegraaf said on Wednesday. “I […]
(AP) A man who allegedly vandalized a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam last year, smashing a window and ramming an Israeli flag through the hole, acted with terrorist intent, prosecutors alleged Wednesday. The prosecutors asked a court in Amsterdam to order the man […]
(NL Times) The court in The Hague sentenced a 32-year-old woman from Uithoorn to six years in prison and compulsory psychological treatment for terrorism and war crimes. The woman was accused of being a follower of violent Salafist ideology and is said […]
(NL Times) An asylum seeker from Iran had warned the Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND) and possibly also the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) that an Iranian-Dutch activist would be murdered, investigative journalists from Argos and the Danish broadcaster DG discovered. […]
(BBC) A refugee in the Netherlands has gone on trial for war crimes over a killing carried out during the Syrian conflict. Ahmad Al K, 49, and his family arrived in the Netherlands in 2014. He was arrested in 2019 after he […]
(NL Times) Between 2015 and 2017 the Dutch national counter-terrorism coordinator NCTV was working on a secret campaign to prevent young Muslims from becoming radicalized. It consisted of videos showing young people deciding against radicalization, intended to be a counterpoint for propaganda […]
(Dutch News) The Netherlands should … bring back a further eight Dutch women and their children from Syria, or they will escape trial on terrorism charges, their lawyer André Seebregts has told Trouw. This weekend, the Netherlands brought back one woman and […]
(NL Times) Ilham B. was picked up in Syria on Friday by a Dutch delegation who will transfer her to the Netherlands. B. went to Syria in 2013 when she was 19-years-old to join the terrorist organization ISIS. She was brought back […]
(AP) The Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast handed over on Saturday to the Netherlands a Dutch woman, her two young sons, and a Dutch girl, who lived in a camp for families of alleged Islamic State militants. A delegation from the Netherlands […]
(NL Times) The risk of the attack in [a] Utrecht tram in 2019 could have been reduced, the Justice and Security Inspectorate concluded following an investigation into what led up to the tragedy. 37-year-old Gökmen Tanis killed four people and injured dozens […]
(NL Times) The Dutch government acted lawfully when it stripped six Dutch-Moroccan dual citizens of their Netherlands nationality on allegations that they traveled to Syria to join Islamic extremist group ISIS or other terrorist groups. The Council of State issued a ruling on Friday […]
(Kurdistan 24) A former commander of the Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sham Islamist group has been sentenced to six years in prison in the Netherlands for war crimes and membership in a terrorist organization. The Dutch Public Prosecution earlier demanded a 10-year sentence, but […]
(NL Times) The National Counterterrorism Coordinator (NCTV) warned that radicalized groups of jihadists, Salafist Muslims and members of the extreme right pose the greatest threat to national security. There is currently no concrete evidence that an attack is being planned, the NCTV […]
(Dutch News) A 32-year-old man from Amsterdam has been sentenced to five months in jail to be followed by compulsory psychiatric treatment for making threats against gay people, Jews and the police on social media but was found not guilty of planning […]
(Jurist) The Court of Rotterdam announced on Monday that Fatima H. has been sentenced to four years in prison in the Netherlands for her involvement with the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Shaam (ISIS) or Islamic State […]
The English city of Peterborough is the latest stop in the ongoing debate over a symbol of Islam’s growing footprint in the West: the amplified call to prayer (adhan). Last fall, Masjid Ghousia requested permission to broadcast three daily prayer calls using […]
(Anadolu) Turkey has deported a total of 2,764 foreign [terrorist] fighters (FTFs) of 67 different nationalities since 2019, the country’s Interior Ministry announced on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the FTFs had left their home countries to join ranks of […]
(NL Times) On Wednesday morning, Utrecht quietly commemorated the second anniversary of a terrorist attack on a city tram that left four people dead and multiple people injured in 2019. Mayor Sharon Dijksma, Justice Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus, surviving relatives, victims, and first […]
(Dutch News) Politicians, writers and members of religious groups have signed an online manifesto in support of a Dutch author of Turkish origin who has received death threats for her work. Lale Gül, a 23-year-old author, has [written] a debut novel called […]
(Morocco World News) Dutch political party DENK spoke with Morocco World News to explain how they want to do things differently and what sets them apart. Amid turbulent times in Europe, the Netherlands is organizing a national parliamentary election on March 17. […]
(Politico) If Dutch politicians and voters thought that Geert Wilders had faded into near-obscurity since the last election, they were dead wrong. For 15 years, the far-right firebrand was everywhere, spreading his anti-Islam, anti-immigration, anti-EU message and doing increasingly well at the […]
(NL Times) The main focus of the election program for Geert Wilders’ PVV is still to close mosques and Islamic schools, ban the Koran, and ban Dutch people with dual nationality from voting or acting as a politician in the Netherlands, NU.nl […]
(AFP) Dutch anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders has said he has no regrets and is ready to “step up” his campaigning against immigration, despite the coronavirus set to dominate next week’s general election. Once dubbed the “Dutch Trump” for his bleached-blonde hair and […]
(NL Times) Junaid I. was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the appeals court for threatening an attack on PVV leader Geert Wilders in 2018 after the far-right politician announced a contest for the best cartoon featuring the prophet Muhammad. The […]
(NL Times) Gokmen T., the man convicted for a terrorist attack on a Utrecht tram in 2019, stabbed a guard at the Rotterdam prison De Schie on Wednesday, Rijnmond and RTL Nieuws report. The guard sustained minor injuries to his face and […]
(Anadolu) Turkish prosecutors filed an investigation Tuesday into far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders over a social media post seeking to vilify Turkey’s president. Prosecutors in the capital Ankara said in a statement that the probe of Wilders, who heads the Dutch Party […]
(Vice) Negative views of Muslims and immigrants are widely held across Europe, according to a major survey across eight European countries. The survey of 12,000 people from Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands and Italy found a widespread mistrust of […]
(NL Times) Dutch counterterrorism authority NCTV confirmed it is investigating how the politics and rhetoric of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could impact the Netherlands, domestic security concerns, and the Dutch-Turkish community. On Monday, newspaper HP/De Tijd reported that a confidential NCTV […]
(NL Times) Concerns about a growing number of people prone to adopting radical ideas are highlighted due to the coronavirus. The National Support Center for Extremism (LSE) would receive a report about radicalization once a month before the pandemic; now there are […]
(JTA) Putting a small-town Jewish baker on the ticket was supposed to change the public image of the Netherlands’ Party of Unity — but not like this. Run by Islamic fundamentalists, the tiny party has had little impact at the ballot box since […]
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