Netherlands: : Politician convicted for insulting and discriminatory remarks made in TV interview

• Autores: Benjamin Selier
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 4, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 1 February 2016, the Court of Appeal of Amsterdam sentenced local Dutch politician Delano Felter to pay a fine for making insulting and discriminatory remarks against homosexuals during a TV interview in 2010. The same Court acquitted Felter in 2013, but was ordered to revise the ruling by the Dutch Supreme Court in 2014. The ruling could prove important for future prosecutions for insulting and discriminatory remarks against a specific group (for previous prosecutions, see IRIS 2009-3/103).