20 May 2013 Claim by newspaper Trouw that part of The Hague’s Schilderswijk district is so dominated by orthodox Muslims that they are dictating what people should wear and how they should behave, have been denied by both police and local politicians. Under the headline ‘Hague district is orthodox Muslim territory’, Trouw said ‘short skirts…
Shaker Aamer was sent to Guantánamo Bay in 2002, and cleared to leave in 2007. Now, weakened by hunger strike, he asks what his fate has to do with justice. The allegations which Aamer denies and which no one has ever been able to prove, has led to Aamer spending years in detention, a stretch…
Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state has been boycotted by Western governments for 10 years over his involvement in the Gujarat massacre in 2002. According to the reports published by Human Rights Watch, Citizens for Justice and Peace and many other NGOs during the massacre more than 2,000 Muslims were killed, 150,000 displaced…
29 August 2012 According to the Pakistani weekly Friday Times, al-Qaeda has recruited two Somali students to carry out a suicide attack in the Hague. De Telegeraaf reported based on a Dutch intelligence source that the threat is “serious” , while a spokesperson for the Dutch embassy in Pakistan told the Friday Times that they…
21 June 2012 Negotiations over the place of a group of Iraqi asylum seekers in the Netherlands continue. Immigration Minister Gerd leers and his Iraqi counterpart Shafiq Duski met in the Hague this week and will again meet in Baghdad in September. The Netherlands offered a fund of 5.5million euros to Iraq to reintegrate…
