Hans Rustad formidler på Document.no hvilken ublide skjebne som ble den nederlandske tegneren Gregorius Nekschots
Surely on Tuesday night, the 15th of May, somewhere in Amsterdam,
somebody hammered on the door of Gregorius Nekschot, “a pale and polite
little fellow” (Elsevier, 6 June 2008). A force of 10 heavily armed
policemen stormed up the stairs, yelling “OPENMAKEN”, then, without
waiting for him to open his door, rammed it in, lifted him from his
bed, handcuffed him, dragged him down and hurled him into the armoured
van. They also took his computer, his mobile phone, his books, letters,
cd’s, dvd’s, and shoes (?). Nekschot (an alias which means “shot in the
back of the head” – the favourite way of the Nazis to execute members
of the Dutch resistance – was thrown into a prison that contained a
concrete platform to sleep on (no blankets) and a hole in the ground to
piss in. He was interrogated twice and imprisoned for 33 hours.
Nekschot was not wanted for murder: he was accused of drawing and
publishing cartoons “of an extremist nature, expressly towards Islam”.
Er det virkelig fortsatt noen som med hånden på hjerte kan påstå at ytringsfriheten ikke er truet?