Member for

12 years 5 months
Year
Report data for country
Cases Perpetrators were Sentenced
90
Cases Prosecuted
170
Cases Recorded by Police
3538
Explanation to the total figures recorded
Figures reported to ODIHR and presented here include hate speech and discrimination offences (or “basic forms of discrimination”) as well as hate crimes (“common offences with a discriminatory motive”).
NGO
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

The Stephen Roth Institute reported one anti-Semitic incident.

Bias Motivation
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

Human Rights First reported one case of arson and graffiti on a mosque and one case of damage to property. The Turks Forum-Netherlands reported one physical assault, four arson attacks on mosques, two cases of damage to property, four cases of graffiti on property and three cases in which pigs’ heads were left outside mosques.

Bias Motivation
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

ILGA-Europe reported a series of attacks on the property of a gay couple.

Bias Motivation
IGO
Description Type
Developments
Organization Report

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) noted its concern about the limited information and low numbers from Netherlands on prosecutions and convictions for ethnically/racially motivated offences.

Bias Motivation
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report

The Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Observatory reported the desecration of one mosque and one case in which a dead sheep was left outside a mosque.