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Netherlands District Court Midden-Nederland (Rechtbank Midden-Nederland) 2016 Netherlands / District Court Midden-Nederland / Case no. 16/652077-16

ECLI:NL:RBMNE:2016:5414
Religion Muslims On 11 October 2015 during a Pegida demonstration a woman said during her speech: "Another reason to despise and hate Muslims is their insane ideology. Because it's never the religion of peace." She placed her speech in written form on het Facebook-page. The Court decided that that the woman has been publicly guilty of insult, incitement to hatred, and the discrimination of Muslims. The court sentenced the woman for insulting a group and inciting hatred and discrimination against… View more
Netherlands District Court North Holland (Rechtbank Noord-Holland) 2016 Netherlands / District Court North Holland / Case no. 15-155584-15 (P)

ECLI:NL:RBNHO:2016:6338
Religion Muslims A Facebook user placed statements on a public Facebook page that were insulting to a group of people because of their religion (in particular Muslims), as evidenced by the reaction of other Facebook users. An example of a statement made by the suspect: “Just fuck off with those dirty filthy stinking Muslims who just fuck goats and want to rape our women, because their wives are too dirty!!" The user later renounced these statements and recognizes that these statements are very offensive to… View more
Netherlands Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) 2012 Netherlands / Supreme Court / Case no. 11/00864

ECLI:NL:HR:2012:BW9189
Race/Ethnicity, Religion Muslims, Migrants In this case, the Supreme Court confirmed the judgement of the Court of Appeal convicting a man who put texts comparing Muslims and people of Turkish descent with monkeys, cockroaches, rats and rapists on his own website. The Court of Appeal convicted the accused under Article 137c of the Dutch criminal code which criminalizes group insult. Any claim by the owners that these texts were permissible because of their humourist character were rejected. The Supreme Court iclarified that the… View more
Netherlands Court of Appeal 's-Hertogenbosch (Gerechtshof 's-Hertogenbosch) 2021 The Netherlands, Court of Appeal 's-Hertogenbosch (Gerechtshof 's-Hertogenbosch) (2021), Case no. 20-003807-17, ECLI:NL:GHSHE:2021:3287, 4 May 2021. Race/Ethnicity Muslims This case concerns a street-cleaner of Sudanese descent who was insulted by a man. It happened in 2015. The street-cleaner saw a man standing under the subway of a shopping centre. The man smashed a beer bottle. The street-cleaner walked up to the man in response, to clean the bottle and the mess immediately. The man shouted at the street-cleaner, "black ape that you are, go back to your country" and "Muslims should go back to the IS", as well as "all blacks should back… View more
Netherlands Court of Appeal Amsterdam (Gerechtshof Amsterdam) 2014 Netherlands / Court of Appeal Amsterdam / Case no. 23-003039-12

ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2014:2752
Race/Ethnicity, Religion Muslims, Migrants In 2010, a man in the city of Zaandam wrote texts in graffiti on a residential building insulting Muslims and Turks . Examples of the texts include "Muslim Murder is top", "Turks stink" etc. The Court of Appeal decided that these texts constituted group insult as criminalised by article 137c of the Dutch criminal code. This article criminalizes group insults on several grounds including race and religion. Turks fall under the definition of race. View more
Netherlands Court of Appeal Amsterdam (Gerechtshof Amsterdam) 2018 Netherlands / Court of Appeal Amsterdam / Case no. 23-001502-18, ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2018:3942 Race/Ethnicity, Religion Migrants A supporter of Dutch politician Geert Wilders made in a televsion documentary about Geert Wilders several derogatory statements about Arabs or Muslims. He spoke about Arabs as 'fervent butt bangers' who also 'fuck little boys', 'that is normal in their culture'. He was charged with group insult on basis of article 137c of the Dutch Criminal Code. The Court of Appeal acquitted him on 9 March 2016 ( ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2016:828 ). The Supreme Court ruled on 10 April 2018… View more
Netherlands Court of Appeal Amsterdam (Gerechtshof Amsterdam) 2016 Netherlands / Court of Appeal Amsterdam / Case no. 23-003966-13

ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2016:828
Religion Muslims In a documentary about the Dutch politician Geert Wilders a man, presented as a follower of Geert Wilders, spoke about Arabs as “fervent ass crashers” (fervent kontenbonkers), who also “fuck young boys”. According to him this is “normal in their culture”. The Court of Appeal decided that these statements do not constitute an insult of Muslims on the ground of their religion, under Article 137c of the Dutch Criminal Code. The Court believed that the accused meant Muslims when he talked about… View more
Netherlands Court of Appeal Arnhem-Leeuwarden (Gerechtshof Arnhem-Leeuwarden) 2021 The Netherlands, Court of Appeal Arnhem-Leeuwarden (Gerechtshof Arnhem-Leeuwarden) (2021), Case no. 21-006140-19, 16 April 2021 ECLI:NL:GHARL:2021:4154. Religion Muslims Ruling by the Court of Appeal in a case which was referred back by the Supreme Court. This case concerns an anti-Islam held speech held during a public demonstration. On 11 October 2015 during a Pegida demonstration a woman said during her speech: "Another reason to despise and hate Muslims is their insane ideology. Because it's never the religion of peace."" Pegida is pan-European anti-Islam organisation. She placed her speech in written form on her Facebook-page. On 12… View more
Netherlands Court of Appeal The Hague (Gerechtshof Den Haag) 2020 Netherlands / Court of Appeal The Hague (Gerechtshof Den Haag) (2020), Case no. 22-000007-17, 4 September 2020, ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2020:1606, available at:
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2020:1606
Race/Ethnicity Migrants On 19 March 2014 elections for the municipal councils were held. The political party PVV of Geert Wilders participated in those election in two municipalities: Almere and the Hague. On the election night Wilders asked his audience during a meeting of party followers in the Hague: “do you want more or less Moroccans in this city and in the Netherlands?”. In response, the audience - which was instructed beforehand - repeatedly chanted “less”. Subsequently more than 6,000 people pressed charges… View more
Netherlands District Court Amsterdam (Rechtbank Amsterdam) 2014 Netherlands / District Court Amsterdam / Case no. 13-650167-13

ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2014:693
Race/Ethnicity Black people or of African origin The moderator of a website opened a thread in which internet users were invited to vent their racist opinions. The owner and moderator of the website placed racist cartoons on this thread. Subsequently, internet users placed racist texts on this thread. The Dutch Complaints Bureau on Internet Discrimination reported this thread to the police. The Public Prosecution Service decided to prosecute the owner and moderator for making public statements or disseminating statements of which the… View more
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