A 64-year-old man from Sittard will face the court in The Hague on Friday for insulting Turkish president Recept Tayyip Erdogan. The public prosecutor in The Hague confirmed it. In 2016 the man sent multiple offensive emails to the Turkish embassy in The Hague in which he compared Erdogan to Hitler and called him a "goat fucker," among other things. According to the newspaper 1 Limburg, the Dutch man is facing charges of insult, insulting an official, and insulting a friendly head of state.
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Dutch Man Facing Prosecution for Insulting Erdogan
A 64-year-old man from Sittard will face the court in The Hague on Friday for insulting Turkish president Recept Tayyip Erdogan. The public prosecutor in The Hague confirmed it. In 2016 the man sent multiple offensive...
by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten
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