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| Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders found guilty of hate speech | |
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| Populist anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has been found guilty of hate speech charges by a court in the Netherlands. | |
| But Judge Hendrik Steenhuis said the court would not impose a sentence on Wilders, for hate speech directed towards Moroccan immigrants, saying the conviction alone was punishment enough for a politician who has been democratically elected. | |
| Wilders is the leader of the far-right Freedom Party which is forecast to surge ahead of its rivals and could win as many as 35 seats in the country’s election in March 2017. | |
| Wilders was put on trial for leading a chant against having Moroccans in the Netherlands. | |
| He was not in court when the verdict was read, but even before the case went ahead, he said he would not let a conviction muzzle him. | |
| "Whatever the verdict, I will continue to speak the truth about the Moroccan problem, and no judge, politician or terrorist will stop me," he tweeted shortly before the verdict. | |
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