Published November 25,2023
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Edwin Wagensveld, head of the anti-Islam PEGIDA group, has been sentenced to unpaid work for insulting Muslims within the Netherlands.
Wagensveld, the chief of PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, was given a 40-hour unpaid work sentence for insult throughout his provocative act Jan. 22.
The far-right Dutch politician tore out pages from a Quran at The Hague, the executive capital of the Netherlands.
On Twitter, Wagensveld shared a video of his provocative act which occurred in entrance of the parliamentary constructing at The Hague.
But he was not sentenced for the desecration of the Quran, however for insulting the Muslim group by evaluating them to Nazis.
Wegensfeld made unnecessarily hurtful statements about Muslims and he ought to discover one other option to contribute to the social debate on the affect of Islam within the Netherlands, the court docket mentioned Thursday.
The Public Prosecution Office had requested the court docket to difficulty a high-quality of €700 ($765), however the court docket didn’t discover it sufficient and ordered a 40-hour unpaid work sentence.
Lawyer Alper Çınar, who filed a grievance in opposition to Wagensveld on behalf of mosque directors affiliated with the Netherlands Diyanet Foundation, confirmed to Anadolu that the far-right politician was given the sentence for his insulting remarks.
He mentioned Reclassering Nederland will determine the kind of group sentence of Wagensveld after the finalization of the sentence, including that it might even be cleansing work at a mosque.
The court docket’s determination is essential by way of figuring out the boundaries of freedom of expression, mentioned Çınar.
Source: www.anews.com.tr