Netherlands: Court rejects bid to drop hate speech trial

Netherlands: Court rejects bid to drop hate speech trial

Via DW-World:
Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has failed in his bid to have a hate speech trial against him dismissed. Judges in the Netherlands have rejected the Dutch Freedom Party leader's claim that the court was not impartial.

Judges in the Netherlands ruled on Monday that the hate speech trial against anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders will continue, despite claims from his lawyers that the court trying him was not impartial.

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