(NL Times) Muslim Rights Watch Nederland is suing the Dutch state over a Tilburg man who has been in custody in Spain for over six weeks on terrorism accusations. According to the organization, the state has taken no action to get the […]
(NL Times) The court in The Hague sentenced the former Pakistani cricket player Khalid Latif to 12 years in prison for incitement to murder PVV leader Geert Wilders. The 37-year-old Pakistani man posted a video online in 2018 offering around 21,000 euros […]
(NL Times) Around 300 Netherlands residents left for Syria and Iraq in recent years with jihadist intentions. About 90 of them have returned to the Netherlands. About 80 minors have also returned, the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) reported in its […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded on Tuesday a 12-year prison sentence for 37-year-old Pakistani cricket player Khalid Latif, who is accused of offering 21,000 euros in 2018 for the murder of the Dutch MP and PVV leader Geert Wilders. […]
(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders will go to court on Tuesday to attend the trial against 37-year-old Pakistani cricket player Khalid Latif. According to the Public Prosecution Service (OM), Latif offered 21,000 euros for the parliamentarian’s murder via a video posted […]
(NL Times) The Tax Authority specifically targeted Islamic organizations when investigating fraud with gifts and donations, NRC reports based on a ruling by the District Court of The Hague that will be published on Wednesday. According to the court, “it cannot be […]
(NL Times) DENK and four organizations representing Muslims and Dutch people of Turkish origin asked Mayor Jan van Zanen of The Hague to ban a “threatening hate action” that Pegida wants to hold in the city on Friday. The anti-Islam movement announced […]
(NL Times) Authorities in the Netherlands took a man and his daughter into custody last week on allegations that they sent approximately 5.5 million euros to organizations linked to the militant Palestinian organization, Hamas. They were apprehended on Thursday, and they remained […]
(NL Times) The police arrested a 16-year-old boy from Eindhoven on May 4 for planning a terrorist attack in a chat group on Telegram. The boy is still in custody. On Tuesday, the police also arrested a 19-year-old man from Deventer in […]
(NL Times) Hundreds of young Dutch people are at risk of forced marriage and abandonment abroad during the summer period because they often miss signs of danger. They are blind to these issues, often out of loyalty to their family, so that […]
(NL Times) The police appointed the man previously used by municipalities to infiltrate mosques to help tackle racism, discrimination, and exclusion in the police organization. Mosque administrators are stunned. Controle Alt Delete, an organization that fights ethnic profiling and police brutality, broke […]
(NL Times) The German authorities have identified a Dutch suspect in an extensive investigation into the funding of the terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS), the German Public Prosecution Service reported. The Dutch person has not been arrested, but the authorities did raid […]
(NL Times) The threat of a terrorist attack in the Netherlands has increased over the past six months, according to the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV). In the latest threat assessment, the counter-terrorism coordinator said he sees “increasing signs” that […]
(NL Times) The police received a record number of reports from politicians being threatened in 2022. The Team Threatened Politicians (TBP) of the police in The [Hague] received 1,125 reports of threats and incitement addressed to parliamentarians and government officials, almost two […]
(NL Times) Dozens of individuals who were allegedly involved in torture under President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria are currently residing freely in the Netherlands, Trouw reported on Saturday. The newspaper conducted this investigation in collaboration with Argos, based on consultations with […]
(NL Times) Different norms and views on things like religion, sexuality, and politics often cause friction between teachers and students at secondary vocational schools. Two-thirds of teachers reported experiencing such conflict in a study by Kennedy Tielman of the university in Wageningen, […]
(NL Times) So far, the Netherlands has permanently revoked 20 people’s Dutch citizenship due to a conviction for a terrorist crime (6) or in the interest of national security (14), Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz reported in a letter to parliament. The state has […]
(NL Times) The brawl that took place at the RAI convention center in Amsterdam on Sunday evening involved hundreds of people arguing over the counting of votes for the Turkish election. Two people were left injured as a result of the fighting. […]
(NL Times) Police officers responded to the RAI in Amsterdam in large numbers on Sunday evening to break up a brawl that had broken out at a polling station for the Turkish election. The unrest started when the polling station closed at […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is pursuing a hate speech case against 54-year-old Edwin Wagensveld of the anti-Islam group Pegida who tore up a Koran on camera near the parliament building in The Hague. The Dutch police will question the […]
(NL Times) The Rotterdam District Court sentenced four Dutch women with ties to ISIS to prison terms ranging from 30 to 36 months, with 12 to 15 months of probation. They were found guilty of participating in the terrorist organization, and engaging […]
(NL Times) Two people will face a criminal court hearing on accusations that they tried to get others to commit acts of violence against a secondary school teacher for his use of a cartoon in support of the controversial French satire magazine, […]
(NL Times) Relatives of Rinke Terpstra, who died during the terrorist attack on a tram in Utrecht, are holding the public transport company Qbuzz and the province of Utrecht jointly responsible for his death. Axel Beijersbergen van Henegouwen, the lawyer representing the […]
(NL Times) Utrecht will again commemorate the attack on a tram in the city four years after the incident. Gökmen T. shot inside and around a tram on the 24 Oktoberplein on March 18, 2019, killing four people and injuring many others. […]
(NL Times) On Tuesday, the court at Schiphol acquitted nine men suspected of preparing a terrorist attack from a garage in Eindhoven. They were arrested in September 2021. The Public Prosecution Service (OM) had previously demanded acquittal against seven suspects, a sentence […]
(NL Times) A Rotterdam court acquitted 33-year-old Annas A. on Wednesday for his alleged role in the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015. A., who is from Amsterdam, was suspected of being a middleman who helped supply weapons that were used in […]
(NL Times) A self-proclaimed Salafist police force is causing fear among Dutch Muslims and starting to divide Dutch mosques. That’s because the instigators warn that they will pillory fellow Muslims as infidels who they believe are guilty of “wrong” behavior or “wrong” […]
(NL Times) Turkey has summoned the Dutch ambassador over a recent protest with the Koran in The Hague. Edwin Wagensveld of the anti-Islam group Pegida tore up a Koran in front of the temporary Tweede Kamer building on Sunday. “We condemn and […]
(NL Times) A 37-year-old man suspected of holding a senior leadership role in the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra was arrested in Arkel, Zuid-Holland, on Tuesday. The Syrian man was believed to be in a top position in the security services of […]
(NL Times) Hundreds of mosques rejected an invitation from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment to further discuss alleged undercover investigations in mosques in a meeting on January 24. This was reported by several mosque umbrella associations, including the Stichting Platform […]
(NL Times) The Netherlands is seeing an increase in violent incidents related to defending a family’s honor. Last year, the police handled 682 such cases, the National Police’s National Expertise Center for Honor-Related Violence said to De Gelderlander. In 2021, there were […]
(NL Times) Two Syrian brothers were arrested in a small Limburg town on accusations they were preparing to commit a terrorist act. The men were taken into custody by the DSI tactical unit that specializes in the intervention of terrorist threats, or […]
(NL Times) The former national coordinator for security and counterterrorism (NCTV), Dick Schoof, was not forthcoming about concerns his staff had about a covert program to gather intelligence about mosques operating in the Netherlands, according to new research by NRC. The office […]
(NL Times) Cities in the Netherlands are again taking measures on Saturday to prevent unrest after Morocco’s World Cup match against Croatia. The two countries are playing for the third and fourth spots. At previous Morocco matches, riots broke out in several […]
(NL Times) On Tuesday, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded four and three years in prison against two of the nine men arrested in Eindhoven on suspicion of terrorism in September last year. The OM requested acquittal for the other seven suspects […]
(NL Times) Education Minister Dennis Wiersma stands by his decision that the board of the Islamic School Amsterdam (ISA) must resign because of mismanagement, which he announced at the end of August. He has not reconsidered his decision after the ISA’s response. […]
(NL Times) The 12 women suspected of terrorism who were picked up from northern Syria on Tuesday will remain in custody for two more weeks, the examining magistrate of the court in Rotterdam decided on Friday. The women and their 28 children […]
(NL Times) In the years before his assassination in The Hague in November 2017, the Iranian-Dutch political activist Ahmad Mola Nissi made at least seven reports to the police regarding risks to his safety. Little to nothing was done with these reports, […]
(NL Times) Twelve Dutch women were picked up in Syria and will be transported to the Netherlands where they will be taken into custody for crimes related to terrorism offenses, the Dutch Cabinet confirmed on Tuesday. Their 28 children were also collected, […]
(NL Times) Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has canceled the planned statement of support for the LGBTI+ community that she asked local mosques to sign earlier in the month. This was a response to criticism from mosque leaders, who believed the mayor’s request […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is prosecuting a 42-year-old man from Tilburg and a mosque foundation for perjury, money laundering, and forgery. According to the OM, the man and the foundation he represented lied to a parliamentary committee investigating whether […]
(NL Times) The board of the Blue Mosque in Amsterdam is angry about a letter from the municipality. In it, Mayor Femke Halsema asks mosque authorities to sign a statement of support calling for the condemnation of violence against LGBTI+ people. The […]
(NL Times) Proper care for women who have undergone female genital mutilation is the most effective way to ensure they do not have their daughters circumcised, experts say. However, Dutch insurance does not always reimburse operations to reverse the circumcision and medical […]
(NL Times) Three years after the introduction of the ban on face-covering clothing — commonly referred to as the burka ban — the Amsterdam city council is calling on parliament to scrap the ban as soon as possible. Mayor Femke Halsema promised […]
(NL Times) Former Hofstad Group member Samir A. was found guilty of financing terrorism and sentenced to 30 months in prison by the court in Rotterdam on Wednesday. The court ruled that the 36-year-old helped a group of women who support ISIS […]
(NL Times) Education Minister Dennis Wiersma has decided that the board of the Stichting Islamitische School Amsterdam (ISA) must resign as quickly as possible. A new inspection of the foundation, which operates several Islamic schools, noted “financial mismanagement, unlawful enrichment and unlawful […]
(NL Times) As-Siddieq, the largest Islamic educational institution in Amsterdam, may face sanctions for misuse of government funds and general mismanagement. Primary and Secondary Education Minister Dennis Wiersma will decide on possible consequences for As-Siddieq, in consultation with the Education Inspectorate, according […]
(NL Times) Three years after the Netherlands implemented its “burqa ban,” the police have not issued a single fine for violating it, RTL Nieuws reports based on figures from the National Police. But women who wear burqas or niqabs have experienced significantly […]
(NL Times) A mosque in The Hague is willing to arrange short-term marriages between women who need money and men who will pay them for sex, a Swedish research program discovered. Such transactions are known as “pleasure marriages” and are considered to […]
(NL Times) The Public Prosecution Service (OM) believes that the suspects in the Eindhoven terrorism case can be released from custody. The OM initially suspected that the nine men planned to commit a terrorist attack. But experts now judge, partly based on […]
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