Wilders accuses the Telegraaf of censorship

PVV leader Geert Wilders has accused the Telegraaf newspaper of censorship for refusing to place two cartoons in the special election edition being published on Monday.


The PVV has two pages of the paper to fill and wanted to publish two drawings by cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot, arrested in 2008 on charges of publishing work which discriminates against Muslims and inciting hatred.
The Telegraaf said in a statement both the paper’s editor and publisher felt the cartoons were ‘unnecessarily offensive’. ‘There is no place for this in our paper and therefore not in our election special,’ the paper said.

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