A Dutch court sentences Khalid Latif to 12 years in prison.
A Dutch court has sentenced former Pakistani cricketer Khalid Latif to 12 years in prison after he was tried in absentia for urging people to murder Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders.The court found he offered a reward for the murder of a far-right Dutch politicianThe court ruled that statements by 37-year-old Latif should be regarded as incitement to murder, sedition and threat.
"The words used by the suspect are explicit: he promises to pay a considerable sum of money to anyone who engages in a specific act, namely the killing of Mr Wilders," The Hague district court said. Images of the Prophet Mohammad are forbidden in Islam as a form of idolatry. Caricatures are regarded by most Muslims as highly offensive.
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