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Wilders trial to continue, Amsterdam court rules
Mar 30, 2011, 8:56 GMT
Amsterdam - The trial Dutch politician Geert Wilders for incitement to hatred against Muslims is to continue, an Amsterdam district court ruled Wednesday.
The court rejected a bid by the leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) to have the case dropped. The charges against Wilders are based on statements he has made about Muslims, often in the context of immigration.
The trial opened in October last year, but was abruptly halted three weeks later when the judges trying him were ordered to step down by a panel of their peers who upheld the politician's claims of bias.
Wilders, 47, faces five counts of giving offence to Muslims and of inciting hatred against Muslims and people of non-Western immigrant background, in numerous public statements since October 2006.
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