The public prosecution department has dropped its case against Telegraaf journalist Jolande van der Graaf, whom it had accused of publishing state secrets.

But two other suspects, a AIVD security service worker and an ex security staffer, remain under investigation and will be brought to court this year, the department said on Tuesday.
The justice ministry had earlier been ordered to stop tapping the journalist’s phone and to return notebooks and other property.
The charges relate to Telegraaf newspaper exclusives in early 2009. In one, the paper accused AIVD staff of simply copying reports about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction from Britain’s M16 and other foreign security services, without any independent verification of the facts. The Netherlands supported the invasion of Iraq partly on the basis of AIVD reports.
The second focuses on claims that threats had been made against the Dalai Lama during his visit to the Netherlands in June.