Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Netherlands (1881, as amended 2007) (excerpts Hate Crimes Laws) (English)

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Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Netherlands

Excerpt from Criminal Code, Act of 3 March 1881, (with Amendments current through 2 February 2007)

Incitement to violence
Article 137d

(1)Anyone who publicly, orally or in writing or image, incites
hatred or discrimination against men or violence against person or property on the grounds of their race, religion or beliefs, their gender, their heterosexual or homosexual orientation or their physical, psychological or mental, shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding one year or fine of the third category.

(2)If it is committed by a person who makes a profession or habit or by two or more persons shall be imprisonment not exceeding two years or a fine of the fourth category.

 

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