Geert Wilders trial ended. Court acquitted Dutch far-right lawmaker and politician Geert Wilders on charges of hate speech and discrimination for statements against Islam.

“You are being acquitted on all the charges that were put against you,” Judge Marcel van Oosten told Geert Wilders. “The bench finds that your statements in your speech are acceptable within the context of the public debate,” Judge van Oosten told 47 years old Wilders, who has been on trial in the Amsterdam regional court since last October.

Geert Wilders Speech : Islam is like Nazism

The flamboyant parliamentarian faced five counts of hate speech and discrimination for his anti-Islamic remarks on websites, Internet forums and in Dutch newspapers between October 2006 and March 2008, and in his controversial 17-minute movie “Fitna” (“Discord” in Arabic). The dutch politician compares Islam to Nazism in his speeches.

 

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