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Showing posts with label Hate Speech. Show all posts
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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
November 2, 2016
The Netherlands: Geert Wilders, 'Fewer Moroccans,' and the Question of Hate Speech - by Uri Friedman
In March 2014, during a rally in The Hague, Geert Wilders asked his supporters whether they wanted more or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands, where Dutch Moroccans constitute 2 percent of the population. “Fewer, fewer!” the crowd chanted. “Then we will arrange that,” the Dutch politician responded, flashing a smile. The remarks lasted only seconds, but they launched a years-long legal battle that resulted, this week, in a trial. Wilders is facing charges of deliberately insulting a group of people based on their race and inciting discrimination and hatred against them.
Over the next few weeks, the trial will revolve around one question, The Wall Street Journal reports: “Is the right of free speech for politicians absolute, or should it be restricted to protect against discrimination?”
Here’s the video when Dutch prosecutors claim Wilders’s free speech veered into hate speech.
Note Almere-Digest: You might like Wilders or you may hate him, but to qualify the above speech as a hate speech, rather than a derogatory political speech, is somewhat far fetched, specially for a nation which respects the right of 'freedom of speech".
Read more: Geert Wilders, 'Fewer Moroccans,' and the Question of Hate Speech - The Atlantic
Over the next few weeks, the trial will revolve around one question, The Wall Street Journal reports: “Is the right of free speech for politicians absolute, or should it be restricted to protect against discrimination?”
Here’s the video when Dutch prosecutors claim Wilders’s free speech veered into hate speech.
Note Almere-Digest: You might like Wilders or you may hate him, but to qualify the above speech as a hate speech, rather than a derogatory political speech, is somewhat far fetched, specially for a nation which respects the right of 'freedom of speech".
Read more: Geert Wilders, 'Fewer Moroccans,' and the Question of Hate Speech - The Atlantic
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