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| Netherlands | Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (College voor de Rechten van de Mens) | 2022 | The Netherlands, Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (College voor de Rechten van de Mens) (2022), Opinion number 2022-13, 29 August 2022. | Religion | Muslims | A Muslim woman wearing a headscarf visits a fitness centre for a trial lesson. She wears a headscarf because of her Islamic religious beliefs. The fitness centre employee indicates that it is not allowed to exercise with headscarves, after which the woman leaves the fitness centre. The woman felt discriminated against because of her religious beliefs. She submitted her case to the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights. The fitness centre disputes that the woman was discriminated against and… | View more |
| Netherlands | Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) | 2022 | The Netherlands, Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) (2022), Case no.21/01879, 18 October 2022, ECLI:NL:HR:2022:1468. | Religion | Muslims | Ruling of the Supreme Court upholding a judgment of the Court of Appeal in which the defendant was acquitted of group insults against Muslims because of or statements she made 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… | 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 | Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) | 2021 | The Netherlands, Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) (2021), Case no. 20/03005, 6 July 2021, ECLI:NL:HR:2021:1036. | 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 | 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 | Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (College voor de Rechten van de Mens) | 2020 | Netherlands / The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (College voor de Rechten van de Mens) (2020), Opinion 2020-48, 22 June 2020, available at: https://mensenrechten.nl/nl/oordeel/2020-48 | Religion | Muslims | A man wanted to open a business account with Bunq, a bank, for the general partnership of which he is a partner. The activities of the general partnership include the dissemination of Islamic knowledge to every individual in the Netherlands. The bank argued that the reason for the exclusion of religious organisations from a business account lies in legislation regarding the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing. But the Netherlands Institute for Human Rightst is of the opinion… | View more |
| Netherlands | Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) | 2020 | Netherlands / Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) (2020), Case no. 19/02742, 17 March 2020, ECLI:NL:HR:2020:381, available at: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2020:381 | Religion | Muslims | A man insults a hospital desk clerk who is a Muslim woman and wears a headscarf by making the following statements: "Always those stupid headscarves." and : "Shame on you for wearing a headscarf! You should read the newspaper so you know what's going on in the world." The Court of Appeal sentenced the defendant to a fine of €400.00 on the basis of article 266 of the Dutch Criminal Code for simple insult. (ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2018:3135). In this judgement the Supreme Court… | 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 | Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) | 2019 | Netherlands / Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) (2019), Case no. 17/05728, 3 December 2019, ECLI:NL:HR:2019:1816, available at: http://deeplink.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2019:1816 | Religion | Muslims | A Christian preacher with the American nationality made in public in the centre of the city of Eindhoven several anti-Muslims statements in the English language, like "Moslims are bad”, “Moslims are terrorists” and “All Moslims will go to hell”. In this ruling the Supreme court confirms the ruling by the Court of Appeal of 's-Hertogenbosch on 22 November 2017 which convicted the preacher for group insult for making the statement “Moslims are terrorists” under article 137c of the… | View more |
| Netherlands | District Court AmsterdamI | 2019 | Netherlands / District Court Amsterdam / Case no.659113-17, ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2019:34 | Race/Ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity | Black people or of African origin | A man made a website and placed on this website racist statements in both Dutch and English. Examples of these statements are: “Only inferior White women date outside of their race. Be proud of your heritage, don’t be a race mixing slut” ; “racial mixing is the worst crime” ; “Stop White Genocide” ; “Is you disobey the seventh commandment, commit adultery (mongrelize with a non-white) and conception takes place, the child is a mongrel (bastard). He is impure, imperfect and inferior physically,… | View more |
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