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Criminal case MH17

Four suspects will be prosecuted for bringing down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on the 17th of July 2014. The first proceedings took place in March 2020. 

International crimes

War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, torture and enforced disappearances: international crimes and offenses of the most serious sort. The Dutch government believes that such crimes must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. 

DNA testing

To solve a serious crime, under certain circumstances the Public Prosecution Service is allowed to test a person’s DNA. Those conditions are regulated by law. Sometimes it may be important to test the DNA of a person other than the suspect. This is called ‘third party DNA testing’. 

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Eritrean placed on The Netherlands Most Wanted List for migration-related crime

19-10-2021 | 14:10

The Dutch Public Prosecution Service has placed the Eritrean Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam (37) on the Netherlands Most Wanted ...

MH17-investigation requests Russian military to share information

02-09-2021 | 10:42

The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that conducts the criminal investigation into the downing of flight Malaysia Airlines MH17 ...

Amendments in MH17 prosecution team

09-08-2021 | 12:43

Some amendments are taking place in the team of the public prosecutors of the MH17 trial. Attorney General B. (Birgit) van ...

Dutch prosecutor demands 27 years jail in war crimes case for Syrian living in the Netherlands

02-07-2021 | 15:26

27 years imprisonment. The Netherlands Public Prosecution Service demanded a high prison sentence in a case against a Syrian man ...

Coordinated action cuts off access to VPN service used by ransomware groups

30-06-2021 | 13:00

This week, law enforcement and judicial authorities in Europe, the US and Canada have seized the web domains and server ...

Police officers who shot a man with a knife acted in self-defence

17-05-2021 | 15:00

The two police officers who shot a 23-year-old German man in Amsterdam New West on Thursday, 13 August 2020, resulting in the ...
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