Judges removed from Wilders trial

Geert Wilders says freedom of speech in the Netherlands is on trial Judges in the hate speech trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders have been ordered to step down by an independent appeals panel. The move follows a request by Mr Wilders' lawyers who said they feared the judges were biased against him. The legal process that began in January must now begin again with new judges. The trial itself started in October. Mr Wilders faces five charges of inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims. If found guilty, he faces a maximum sentence of one year in jail. A hastily convened panel at the Amsterdam District Court ruled on Friday that the objections of Mr Wilders' legal team were valid. Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops, an international criminal law professor at Utrecht University, told Reuters that the ruling meant there would be new judges and a new date. "This means that the trial has to start all over again. Not the investigation phase, but the court sessions as the new judges will not have been present at the hearings," he said. Under scrutiny in the trial are statements Mr Wilders made between 2006 and 2008, including calling Islam "fascist" and likening the Koran to Hitler's book Mein Kampf. Mr Wilders' Freedom Party is the third biggest in the Netherlands after elections in June, and is expected to play a key role in the next parliament.This article is from the BBC News website. � British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

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