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November 6, 2017
Spain: Sacked Catalonia leader turns himself in, polls show independence strength
Sacked Catalonia leader Carles Puigdemont and four associates turned
themselves in to Belgian police on Sunday, following Spain’s issuing of
an arrest warrant for rebellion and sedition.
All are wanted by Madrid for actions related to the
push for the region’s secession from Spain. Puigdemont has become the
public face of that move for independence.\
Other
charges are the misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of
trust relating to the secessionist campaign, which has thrown Spain into
a political crisis just as its economy has recovered from a sharp
downturn and banking stress.
Madrid has taken
over administrative control in Catalonia, until then an autonomous
region, and called new elections on Dec 21.
Two
polls on Sunday suggested pro-Catalonia independence parties will
together win December’s regional election although they may fall just
short of a majority of seats in parliament needed to revive the
secession campaign.
Note EU-Digest: The Catalan political leaders are playing a dangerous game by showing total disrespect for the Spanish Constitution.
Their tactics are irregular, and regardless of what they say, the
Spanish Government has shown great tolerance in dealing with the issue.
Read more: Sacked Catalonia leader turns himself in, polls show independence strength
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November 24, 2016
Geert Wilders brands Dutch hate speech trial 'a charade'
Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has told a court that his trial for alleged hate speech is a "charade, a disgrace for the Netherlands, a mockery for our society".
In a televised statement on the last day of the trial, he said that if he was convicted "millions of Dutch citizens will be convicted with me".
The charges were brought after he led a chant for fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands at a rally 18 months ago.
He denies inciting racial hatred.
Mr Wilders has denounced the trial as an attempt to suppress freedom of speech. If convicted, he faces a fine and a year in prison. The verdict is due next month.
Read more:Geert Wilders brands Dutch hate speech trial 'a charade' - BBC News
In a televised statement on the last day of the trial, he said that if he was convicted "millions of Dutch citizens will be convicted with me".
The charges were brought after he led a chant for fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands at a rally 18 months ago.
He denies inciting racial hatred.
Mr Wilders has denounced the trial as an attempt to suppress freedom of speech. If convicted, he faces a fine and a year in prison. The verdict is due next month.
Read more:Geert Wilders brands Dutch hate speech trial 'a charade' - BBC News
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May 29, 2014
Suriname: President Bouterse wants Cocaine conviction retrial in Netherlands and goes on "redemption" campaign at home
Desi and Dino: 'shame and scandal in the family' |
Bouterse’s lawyer Inez Weski presented the Court with a request for a review on Tuesday against the 2000 conviction by the court in The Hague.
According to the lawyer, the key witness in the court case, Belgian Patrick van L. said that he gave a falsely incriminating statement to the court because he was under pressure from the Public Prosecution Service (OM). The witness said that Bouterse was involved in the transport of 474 kilos of cocaine, which was intercepted in the Stellendam port in 1997.
Weski states that the witness made this statement because the OM promised him several favors that were never made public. Van L. has retracted his earlier statements with the notary public.
In the request for a retrial, Bouterse’s lawyer also asks for “a thorough investigation into the established violations of the probe and the judicial process, not only so that the client (Bouterse) be done right by, but at the same time it be prevented that an investigative team no longer be able to operate beyond every rule of law in this blinding manner.”
Bouterse stood trial for a number of drug transporting claims, but was only convicted for the Stellendam case, and got 11 years. Then-lawyer in that case, Bram Moszkowicz asked for a retrial in 2002. According to him, the statement given by key witness Van L. was untrustworthy.
But problems with drugs are not only isolated to the President, his son Dino Bouterse, who had been appointed by his father as director of Suriname's anti-terrorism unit, was arrested last year in Panama by local authorities and turned over to U.S. agents and is on trial in New York on terrorism and drug charges
His arrest came just when his father, President Desi Bouterse, a former coup leader and himself convicted of drug offenses, hosted the annual UNASUR summit for political leaders of South American countries.
In the meantime President Desi Bouterse in a "look how clean and good I am campaign" has promised the Suriname legislature that his government will go to war against all proven cases of corruption. He instructed vice president Robert Ameerali to order the Government Accounting Agency (CLAD) to start immediate investigation in all government departments and semi-government enterprises to unearth malpractices and corruption.
"This is hypocrisy in overdrive", said a member of the Suriname opposition in the legislature.
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