Press expelled from MP Geert Wilders political party
A reporter for the Dutch TV programme PowNews was shown the door out of the café where Geert Wilders’ (anti-Islam and anti-EU) Freedom Party supporters gathered for the election night. Jan Versteegh and his cameraman were taken by security after they were told they were posing “unwelcome questions” (sic). Moments before they were expelled Versteegh...
Oops, he did it again…
Dutch cartoonist Adriaan Soeterbroek did it again: he has upset PVV leader Geert Wilders with another of his cartoons. Earlier this year Soeterbroek saw one of his cartoons removed from the website Joop.nl after a number of serious threats were made to some of his colleagues. In his cartoon he associated a housing policy proposed...
Wilders’ PVV screens journalists
I can’t say I have made up my mind about this news. Journalists must give personal information to Geert Wilders’ PvV (Freedom Party) when they attend their press conferences – including their citizen number (BSN). The PvV says it sends that information to the secret services. PvV’s leader Geert Wilders must be under police protection...
