NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan worldwide cricketer Khalid Latif on Monday was handed a 12-year jail sentence by a Dutch courtroom for urging the homicide of anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders.
In a web-based video, the 37-year-old Latif supplied a sum of 21,000 euros ($22,500) for the top of Geert Wilders, who had initiated a controversial competitors involving cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
“It was not a stretch to assume that any individual world wide would have taken heed of the decision to kill Mr Wilders,” presiding decide G. Verbeek advised the courtroom.
“The accused knew this and his name fuelled the fireplace to have Wilders killed.”
This can be very unlikely that Latif, who was convicted in absentia, will serve his sentence. Dutch authorities have sought in useless to query Latif over the case and requested authorized help from Pakistan, additionally to no avail.
“It is a good sentence, nevertheless it’s a pity that the accused shouldn’t be right here in courtroom,” Wilders advised reporters exterior, sporting his trademark peroxide hairdo.
“It’s not acceptable that the Pakistani authorities refuse to cooperate. I’m going to ask the prime minister to make sure that Khalid Latif is arrested in Pakistan and extradited to the Netherlands,” he added.
Wilders cancelled the cartoon contest after protests broke out in Pakistan and he was inundated with loss of life threats. He has been underneath 24-hour state safety since 2004.
Within the Netherlands, the plan to stage the competition was criticised broadly with politicians, native media and strange residents slamming the thought as needlessly antagonising Muslims.
However the name to kill Wilders appeared to resonate in the actual world, with a Pakistani man sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2019 for plotting his assassination within the wake of the cancelled contest.
Decide Verbeek stated Latif’s video was not simply an assault on Wilders personally, but in addition on the idea of free speech within the Netherlands.
Latif performed 5 one-day internationals and 13 T20 internationals for Pakistan however was banned from cricket for 5 years in 2017 for spot-fixing in a Pakistan Tremendous League match in Dubai.
His final Pakistan look was towards the West Indies in Abu Dhabi in September 2016.
Nevertheless, Verbeek stated that Latif had benefitted from his fame as a world cricketer to “add oil to the fireplace” at a time when the Netherlands was already the goal of a number of threats.
(With inputs from AFP)
In a web-based video, the 37-year-old Latif supplied a sum of 21,000 euros ($22,500) for the top of Geert Wilders, who had initiated a controversial competitors involving cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
“It was not a stretch to assume that any individual world wide would have taken heed of the decision to kill Mr Wilders,” presiding decide G. Verbeek advised the courtroom.
“The accused knew this and his name fuelled the fireplace to have Wilders killed.”
This can be very unlikely that Latif, who was convicted in absentia, will serve his sentence. Dutch authorities have sought in useless to query Latif over the case and requested authorized help from Pakistan, additionally to no avail.
“It is a good sentence, nevertheless it’s a pity that the accused shouldn’t be right here in courtroom,” Wilders advised reporters exterior, sporting his trademark peroxide hairdo.
“It’s not acceptable that the Pakistani authorities refuse to cooperate. I’m going to ask the prime minister to make sure that Khalid Latif is arrested in Pakistan and extradited to the Netherlands,” he added.
Wilders cancelled the cartoon contest after protests broke out in Pakistan and he was inundated with loss of life threats. He has been underneath 24-hour state safety since 2004.
Within the Netherlands, the plan to stage the competition was criticised broadly with politicians, native media and strange residents slamming the thought as needlessly antagonising Muslims.
However the name to kill Wilders appeared to resonate in the actual world, with a Pakistani man sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2019 for plotting his assassination within the wake of the cancelled contest.
Decide Verbeek stated Latif’s video was not simply an assault on Wilders personally, but in addition on the idea of free speech within the Netherlands.
Latif performed 5 one-day internationals and 13 T20 internationals for Pakistan however was banned from cricket for 5 years in 2017 for spot-fixing in a Pakistan Tremendous League match in Dubai.
His final Pakistan look was towards the West Indies in Abu Dhabi in September 2016.
Nevertheless, Verbeek stated that Latif had benefitted from his fame as a world cricketer to “add oil to the fireplace” at a time when the Netherlands was already the goal of a number of threats.
(With inputs from AFP)
