US EditionRight-wing presenter sentenced to 80 hours of community service for racist comments
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The chaos at the radical right-wing broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland is complete. In addition to the new editor-in-chief, presenter Raisa Blommestijn is also receiving a lot of criticism, as is evident from internal documents that this site has seen. A member of the members' council claims that Blommestijn is 'terrorizing' the editorial floor and is calling for her departure. A reporter for the broadcaster filed a formal complaint with the confid…
Dutch Lawyer Sentenced to 80 Hours Community Service in Free Speech Case
On Thursday, a judge in The Hague sentenced right-wing TV presenter and lawyer Raisa Blommestijn to 80 hours of community service—double the amount requested by the prosecution—over social media posts she made from her personal account in May of last year. In response to viral footage showing a migrant gang beating a defenseless white man before throwing him onto the train tracks, she wrote: Yet another white man beaten up on the street by a gr…
Presenter Raisa Blommestijn has been convicted of defamation and group insult. She has been given a higher community service sentence, as the Public Prosecution Service had demanded. The lawyer herself speaks of "a black day for democracy, the rule of law and freedom of expression".
The court in The Hague has sentenced opinion maker and presenter Raisa Blommestijn (30) to eighty hours of community service, of which forty hours suspended, for insulting messages on X.
Good morning! The judge will rule in the case against opinion maker Raisa Blommestijn. She is on trial for group insult and defamation. And it is Christmas Eve. First the weather: today it is mostly cloudy and rainy. In the afternoon it will be temporarily drier and there will be a strong southerly wind. It will be a maximum of 9 degrees. Christmas Eve will be downright wet and windy. Are you going on the road? Here you will find an overview of …
Right-wing presenter sentenced to 80 hours of community service for racist comments
The court in The Hague has sentenced the opinion maker and Ongehoord Nederland (ON!) presenter Raisa Blommestijn (30) to 80 hours of community service with another 40 hours conditionally suspended for insulting messages that were posted on the social media platform X. The punishment is higher than the recommendation from the Public Prosecution Service because the judge believes that the seriousness of the facts is not sufficiently reflected in t…
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