Netherlands tries Pakistanis for incitement to kill Geert Wilders
Al Jazeera
Two men are standing trial in absentia at a high-security court near Amsterdam for inciting the murder of the far-right politician.
Dutch prosecutors have demanded a 14-year sentence for two Pakistani men over allegations that they sought to incite the murder of far-right politician Geert Wilders.
The pair, a religious leader and a political party chief, were tried in absentia on Monday on charges they urged followers to kill Wilders, whose party joined the government for the first time this year after winning the most votes (23.5 percent) in last year’s elections.
Prosecutors charged Muhammed Ashraf Jalali, a 56-year-old religious leader, with promising his followers they would be “rewarded in the afterlife” if they killed the anti-Islam politician.
Saad Hussain Rizvi, leader of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, is also suspected of calling for Wilders’s murder.
The trial occurred at a highly secure court near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.
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