(NL Times) The trial against Ayoub M. from Amersfoort, the man suspected of a fatal knife attack at [Erasmus] Bridge in Rotterdam in September last year, starts in the high-security courtroom at Schiphol Airport on Monday. The now 23-year-old man is facing […]
(NL Times) Police arrested an individual on Thursday morning for allegedly making death threats against writer and columnist Lale Gül, according to Gül. The Central Netherlands Police have declined to comment on the matter. The 28-year-old Dutch-Turkish author gained recognition in 2021 […]
(NL Times) Authorities failed to fully monitor Ayoub M., the suspect in the fatal stabbing at Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge, in the months leading up to the attack, according to a joint report from the Dutch Inspectorate of Justice and Security and the […]
(NL Times) Today, the trial starts against Mohamed (23) and Muhanad al N. (25), suspected of involvement in the honor killing of their 18-year-old sister, Ryan. Their father, Khaled al N., is the main suspect in his daughter’s brutal death, but is […]
(NL Times) Dutch writer and television commentator Lale Gül, 28, will soon lose her personal security protection, she told the ANP on Thursday. Gül said she was informed of the decision in a meeting with the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security […]
(NL Times) Justice Minister Foort van Oosten (VVD) will pursue a formal law to prohibit visible religious symbols, such as kippahs or headscarves, for special enforcement officers (BOA’s) following a sharply critical advisory from the Council of State. The Council of State […]
(NL Times) Palestinian journalist and activist Mustafa Ayyash, 33, is fighting his extradition to Austria. On Tuesday, his lawyer, Frederieke Dölle, urged the International Legal Assistance Chamber (IRK) of the Amsterdam District Court to deny the extradition request. A group of about […]
(NL Times) The Council of State has given a mostly favorable assessment of Esther Ouwehand’s (Partij voor de Dieren) bill aimed at reducing animal suffering during slaughter. Among its provisions is a proposal to make stunning animals mandatory before ritual slaughter. The […]
(NL Times) The planned Pegida demonstration in Assen on Sunday afternoon was banned at the last minute by Mayor Marco Out due to public safety concerns. The right-wing group had intended to burn a Quran near the Assen courthouse. Tensions flared in […]
(NL Times) BBB leader Caroline van der Plas has explicitly warned farmers not to vote for the PVV. Geert Wilders’ far-right party seems to have farmers’ best interest at heart, but often votes with the animal party PvdD, she said in Nieuwsuur. […]
(NL Times) Geert Wilders is reportedly on the target list of a terrorist cell arrested in Belgium on Thursday. The PVV leader has pulled out of an election debate on NOS on Friday afternoon as a precaution. A journalist from the Belgian […]
(NL Times) Several parliamentarians in the Netherlands have expressed concern over the conflict between religious and democratic values at certain schools, as reported by Nieuwsuur on Monday. During a debate on primary education, Marleen Haage (GroenLinks-PvdA) and Ilana Rooderkerk (D66) emphasized that […]
(NL Times) Several Reformed Christian and Islamic schools are giving lessons that clash with democratic values like equality and tolerance, Nieuwsuur reported after examining mainstream, strictly Christian and Islamic education. Schools are required to teach children about democratic values and to live […]
(NL Times) The police arrested seven people during demonstrations around an asylum shelter in Hoofddorp on Wednesday evening. Earlier in the evening, Pegida leader Edwin Wagensveld burned a Koran at the center. Counter-demonstrators responded, throwing fireworks, stones, and traffic signs at the […]
(NL Times) Palestinian journalist and activist Mustafa Ayyash, arrested Friday at Schiphol Airport at the request of Austrian authorities, will remain in pretrial detention for at least 20 more days, RTL reports. He appeared Monday before the examining magistrate at the Amsterdam […]
(NL Times) The mayor of Delft, Marja van Bijsterveldt, regrets the impact that the municipality’s investigation into the Muslim community in the Zuid-Holland town had, but will not apologize for it. In an interview with de Volkskrant, van Bijsterveldt, who is stepping […]
(NL Times) A Dutch court has ruled that the government must assist in relocating 42 Afghan guards who protected the Dutch embassy in Kabul during the Taliban takeover in 2021, along with their partners and minor children, NOS reports. The guards worked […]
(NL Times) A 45-year-old man from Turkey was arrested in the Netherlands for allegedly being part of a plan to kill Pope Francis over a year ago in Trieste, Italy, authorities in that country told newspaper Il Piccolo and press agency ANSA. […]
(NL Times) Fourteen Islamic organizations in the Netherlands have filed a criminal complaint against far-right politician Geert Wilders, accusing him of inciting hatred, discrimination or violence, and of group insult and sedition over a social media post comparing images of women labeled […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders has sparked more than 2,500 discrimination complaints in just days over a controversial social media post, AD reports. The post, shared earlier this week, shows a split image: on the left, a blonde woman labeled “PVV,” […]
(NL Times) The municipality of Veenendaal acted unlawfully in an investigation into the Taubah foundation and mosque, the court ruled. Veenendaal commissioned the company NTA to investigate the organization and its community without Taubah’s knowledge, thereby violating privacy rights. Several municipalities had […]
(NL Times) A 31-year-old man from Tajikistan was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on Monday for recruiting members for Islamic State (IS) across multiple countries, including the Netherlands, to allegedly prepare attacks. The Rotterdam court said the man […]
(NL Times) Dutch prosecutors have demanded an eight-year prison sentence for a 31-year-old man from Tajikistan accused of recruiting Dutch citizens and others in multiple countries to join Islamic State groups. The man, identified as Abdusamad A., is alleged by the Public […]
(NL Times) A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, adopted two asylum laws around midnight. The laws, drafted by former PVV Minister Marjolein Faber, are intended to implement “the strictest asylum policy ever” in the Netherlands. […]
(NL Times) Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof will be summoned before the Rotterdam District Court in the criminal trial of an intelligence worker suspected of leaking state secrets to Morocco, the court said on Friday. The case concerns 65-year-old [Abderrahim] el M., […]
(NL Times) The Netherlands is failing to prevent forced marriages, abandonment abroad, and female genital mutilation, putting hundreds to thousands — mostly girls and women — at serious risk each year. A new study by research agency Right to Rise, commissioned by […]
(NL Times) Terrorism in the Netherlands is primarily a “problem of homegrown origin,” according to a recent study examining the links between migration and terrorism. The report, shared Friday by Justice and Migration Minister David van Weel (VVD) with the Tweede Kamer, […]
(NL Times) There is still a realistic chance of a terrorist attack occurring in the Netherlands, the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) reported on Tuesday in the half-yearly report on this matter. Previous concerns were repeated in the report, including […]
(NL Times) Mosque leaders in the Netherlands have little faith in the government, according to a survey conducted by researchers from Movisie and Moslimpeil. The report, based on interviews with 82 mosque leaders, will be submitted to the national coordinator against discrimination […]
(NL Times) The Dutch government has released its confidential report on the security situation in Syria following a court ruling earlier Friday, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reports. The ruling came after a Syrian asylum seeker challenged the rejection of his asylum application […]
(NL Times) Dutch authorities have intervened at several illegal slaughterhouses across the Netherlands in recent days, seizing sheep carcasses and rescuing live animals amid heightened enforcement during Offerfeest (Eid al-Adha), the Islamic holiday during which many animals are reportedly ritually slaughtered, AD […]
(NL Times) A Leiden man being held in police custody was accused of being an Islamic State (IS) supporter based on commentary broadcast on social media app Clubhouse, and his alleged participation in groups praising the terrorist organization. The 28-year-old was arrested […]
(NL Times) In a letter to customers on Tuesday, ING apologized for years of discrimination in the bank’s anti-money laundering and terrorism financing policy. The bank says the discrimination was unintentional, but promised to ask fewer questions to customers, at least when […]
(NL Times) Two men attempted to attack a suspect during a hearing at the court in Utrecht on Thursday. Officers were able to restrain the two men before they got to Mohamed B., who is accused of destroying 117 graves at the […]
(NL Times) Nine new Islamic primary schools will open in the Netherlands next year, the highest number so far in one year, Trouw reported. The country is getting at least 14 new primary schools. Among them are also two Protestant Christian schools […]
(NL Times) Of the 14 mostly minor suspects arrested last week on suspicion of incitement to terrorism on social media, ten are still in custody. The other four have been released from custody without arraignment, but remain suspects in the case, said […]
(NL Times) Fourteen individuals between the ages of 14 and 30 were arrested across the Netherlands on Tuesday in connection with multiple investigations into incitement to terrorism through social media. Some of the suspects are minors, according to the Dutch Public Prosecution […]
(NL Times) The United States has issued a 5-million-dollars reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Khadra Essa, a Somali-Dutch woman believed to be a key figure in the terrorist organization ISIS, RTL reports. According to the U.S. Department of State, […]
(NL Times) The Ulu Mosque in Utrecht is annoyed by a bill by SGP and JA21 to ban amplified calls to prayer. According to the conservative Christian and far-right parties, the Islamic call to prayer causes unrest and alienation. According to the […]
(NL Times) Dutch lawmakers are calling for a tougher crackdown on female genital mutilation (FGM), proposing a new law that would make it a criminal offense to promote or glorify the practice. The move comes as fresh data reveals that over 4,200 […]
(NL Times) The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) has ordered the minister of social affairs and employment to delete all the illegally gathered personal data that the ministry has of members of Muslim communities. The data was obtained via secret investigations, which […]
(NL Times) Edwin Wagensveld, leader of the far-right anti-Islam movement, set fire to a Quran in central Amsterdam on Thursday evening, in front of the Stopera municipal building. Wagensveld, a prominent figure in the movement that opposes the influence of Islam in […]
(NL Times) A 32-year-old man from North Holland was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of financing terrorism through Bitcoin transactions and violating the Dutch Sanctions Act. The arrest was made and reported by the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD). Authorities searched […]
(NL Times) The Dutch government cannot revoke the citizenship of a man born in Amsterdam with dual Dutch and Moroccan nationality who was previously convicted of terrorist offenses, [a] court ruled. The decision states that stripping his Dutch nationality would violate the […]
(NL Times) Four men were convicted on Wednesday for crimes committed before and after a football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv FC of Israel. The harshest sentence given was the 12-week stint in prison that a 27-year-old man was ordered […]
(NL Times) Deputy Prime Minister Mona Keijzer will not be prosecuted for saying that “hatred of Jews is almost part of the culture” in Islamic countries, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled in a procedure trying to force prosecution. The BBB minister […]
(NL Times) A 20-year-old Syrian man residing in Rotterdam was arrested on March 7 in Apeldoorn on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist organization and planning a terrorist attack. The arrest was carried out without incident by the Dienst Speciale Interventies (DSI), […]
(NL Times) A 24-year-old man from Venray was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of terrorism-related offenses, including making threats involving a terrorist act and distributing incendiary materials. The suspect came to the attention of Dutch authorities earlier [last] month after Belgian police raised […]
(NL Times) The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) is aware of a report from Germany that terrorists may be targeting Festival de Liebe at Ahoy in Rotterdam on March 7 and 8. The Rotterdam authorities are also looking into it. […]
(NL Times) Students across the Netherlands are reporting bans on prayer during school hours, with some even facing punishments for attempting to pray at school. Over 180 secondary schools have been named by students who say they are not allowed to pray […]
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