World Report 2008: Netherlands
3 April 2008
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Recent articles in Netherlands
Riots in Amsterdam: The facts versus the framing
Media and politicians were quick to frame the violence as young Muslims “hunting” Jews, while totally ignoring anti-Palestinian provocation and attacks carried out by Israeli football fans.
Concerns about transposition of European anti-SLAPP directive in the Netherlands
Signatory organisations, IFEX among them, stress that the draft implementation act does not provide sufficient safeguards to protect journalists from SLAPP cases, and therefore call for stronger and more effective measures.
Netherlands: Three convicted of murdering journalist Peter R. de Vries
The Court convicted the two men who conducted the murder to 28 years in prison and the middleman – dubbed by the Prosecution as the ‘homicide broker’ – to 26 years.