Court cases against Dutch state

Prime Minister Rutte insufficiently motivated the rejection of publication of MH17 documents

April 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Dutch news RTL Nieuws filed a request for information (WOB) to Dutch Prime Minister requesting him to make public two types of documents; minutes of meetings of the cabinet reagarding MH17 an [...]

RTL Nieuws court case against Dutch Ministry

February 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

by At February 21 Dutch RTL Nieuws and Dutch Ministry of Algemene Zaken went to court (Midden-Nederland (Utrecht), bestuursrecht, meervoudige kamer) about a Freedom of Information Request. The [...]

Secret MH17 documents: court decision into release more delayed

January 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

by A Dutch judge notified Dutch newsstation RTL Nieuws in a letter dated January 19 2017 about a further delay into the investigation of a possible release of secret state documents on MH17. The [...]

Dutch state refuses to release Minutes of Cabinet and MCCb documents

October 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Dutch newsstation RTL Nieuws together with NOS and Volkskrant started in 2014 a request based on Dutch Wet Openbaarheid van Bestuur (WOB equal to Freedom om Information act) forcing the Dutch [...]

Will Dutch Ministry use last day before deadline expires to publish MH17 documents ?

August 26, 2016 // 4 Comments

by Update: Rechtbank Midden Nederland called me on Monday August 29. They received the documents part of the WOB-request. On Friday late afternoon the documents were handed over. So Dutch Ministry [...]

Dutch court approves delay of 4 weeks for correcting MH17 documents

August 16, 2016 // 2 Comments

by Dutch Ministry of Justice did too much censoring of MH17 related documents. Dutch press RTL, NOS and Volkskrant used the Dutch WOB law (Freedom of Information Act) to request documents of the [...]

Many delays show the State of the Netherlands want to hide truth about MH17

July 13, 2016 // 11 Comments

by Update: July 19. The pressofficer of the Utrecht court let me know the court did not decide yet on the request by Ministry of Justice to delay the handover of corrected documents with four more [...]

My prediction for the verdict of Dutch court on request for releasing MH17 documents

June 2, 2016 // 44 Comments

by Update June 4: I was not completely right. The court decided that the Dutch state has to make clear why many sentences were censored. Also some documents were not handed over. The judge states he [...]

Courtcase by Dutch media against Dutch state on secret MH17 documents planned for February 9

November 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Dutch TV news RTL Nieuws, NOS Nieuws and Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant announced they will start a court case against the Ministry of Safety and Justice. The media demand to release documents on [...]