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Two Pakistani men convicted over calls to murder Dutch anti-Muslim leader Wilders

 
 Geert Wilders, Dutch right-wing politician and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV).  November 24, 2023. (photo credit: CARL COURT/GETTY IMAGES)
Geert Wilders, Dutch right-wing politician and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV). November 24, 2023.
(photo credit: CARL COURT/GETTY IMAGES)

Wilders, whose party joined government for the first time this year after a clear election victory, has lived under tight security for the past 20 years due to death threats.

A Dutch court said it convicted two Pakistani political leaders on Monday of making calls for the murder of anti-Muslim lawmaker Geert Wilders, though both are thought to be abroad and are unlikely to serve their sentences.

Wilders, whose party joined the government for the first time this year after a clear election victory, has lived under tight security for the past 20 years due to death threats.

One 56-year-old man, described as a political and religious leader from Pakistan, was sentenced to 14 years for attempted and actual incitement and threats to murder with terrorist intent, the District Court of The Hague said in a statement.

Sentenced in absence

The court did not name him or the other man or go into more detail on their political activities. Both were sentenced in their absence. A 29-year-old "political leader" from Pakistan was sentenced to four years for incitement and threats to murder, the court added.

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 Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders speaks to media in The Hague, Netherlands after polls closed in an EU election on June 6, 2024.  (credit: Lewis Macdonald / Reuters)
Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders speaks to media in The Hague, Netherlands after polls closed in an EU election on June 6, 2024. (credit: Lewis Macdonald / Reuters)

In February, a court had said the two men had been accused of publicly calling on people to kill Wilders and promising them a reward in the afterlife if they did so.

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