Dutch-speaking Belgium schools to ban religious headscarves
September 11, 2009
[JURIST] Belgian school officials announced Friday that Muslim headscarves [JURIST news archive] will be banned in about 700 schools in the Dutch-speaking northern region of Flanders. The move came after an administrative tribunal ruled Tuesday that individual schools could not impose a ban [AFP rep....... [more] 
Netherlands considering accepting Guantanamo detainees
July 15, 2009
[JURIST] Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende [official profile] said Tuesday that the Netherlands would be willing to consider accepting Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees, despite earlier statements to the contrary. Meeting with US President Barack Obama [official website] in Wash....... [more]
Germany appeals court rules accused Nazi soldier fit to stand trial
July 7, 2009
[JURIST] A German appeals court on Tuesday found [press release, in German] that suspected Nazi Waffen-SS [USHMM backgrounder] soldier Heinrich Boere is medically fit to stand trial for the 1944 murder of three Dutch civilians. The Cologne Higher Regional Court [official website, in German] overturn....... [more]
Netherlands high court upholds conviction of Saddam chemical weapons supplier
June 30, 2009
[JURIST] The Dutch Supreme Court [official website] on Tuesday upheld [judgment, in Dutch] the 2005 war crimes conviction [JURIST report] of a Dutch businessman convicted of selling chemicals used by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] to create chemical weapons. Frans Van Anr....... [more]
Netherlands terror prosecutions rarely result in convictions: report
June 12, 2009
[JURIST] Of 113 terrorism cases in the Netherlands [JURIST news archive] between September 11, 2001 and 2008, only 27 have led to convictions according to a report [NRC report] Thursday in the NRC Handelsblad [media website]. The report states that some of those convictions have been overturned on a....... [more]
Royal Dutch Shell reaches settlement over Nigeria activist deaths
June 9, 2009
[JURIST] A $15.5 million settlement [press release] was reached Monday between Royal Dutch Shell PLC [corporate website] and the families of nine Nigerian activists who were killed in 1995. The settlement came [WSJ report] as the case was scheduled to go to trial in the US District Court for the Sou....... [more]
Netherlands high court head proposes code of conduct for critical lawmakers
June 4, 2009
[JURIST] The president of the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden [official website, in Dutch], the highest court in the Netherlands, on Thursday called for a code of conduct for politicians limiting their public statements on court rulings, after comments he says have undermined the judiciary's role. Geert C....... [more]
Somali pirate suspects go on trial in Netherlands court
May 18, 2009
[JURIST] Five Somalians suspected of piracy [JURIST news archive] went on trial Monday before a Dutch court in Rotterdam. The men are accused of attempting to hijack [NRC Handelsblad report] a Dutch Antilles freighter in the Gulf of Aden in January. The Danish navy seized the Somalians in February a....... [more]
UN racism conference begins as US and other nations boycott
April 20, 2009
[JURIST] The UN Durban Review Conference on racism [official website] began on Monday with the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile; JURIST news archive] expressing concerns [press release] over the decision by the US and several other countries to boycott the summit. The US, along wit....... [more]
First Iraq insurgent tried in US federal court sentenced to 25 years in prison
April 17, 2009
[JURIST] Iraqi insurgent Wesam al Delaema was sentenced to 25 years in prison [DOJ press release] Thursday for conspiracy to murder US nationals outside the US. Al Delaema, who was charged [indictment, PDF] with the crime in 2005, is the first Iraqi insurgent to be tried in a US federal court. Al De....... [more]
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