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October 5, 2020
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In February 2020, two individual citizens of color, Amnesty International, Control Alt Delete, anti-discrimination agency RADAR and PILP filed a lawsuit against the Royal Military Police. They asked the court to end discriminatory border controls.

On Oct. 7 at 8:30 p.m., the summons was scrutinized during an event. Anti-discrimination agency RADAR, Amnesty International and Mpanzu Bamenga discussed what they want to achieve with this lawsuit. A lawyer and a professor addressed the question of how KMar should conduct border checks.

Our guests
Mpanzu Bamenga – participant in the lawsuit
Merel Hendrickx – human rights lawyer at PILP
Peter Rodrigues – professor of immigration law at Leiden University
Gerbrig Klos – senior policy advisor at Amnesty
Dave Bekkering – complaints handler at RADAR, a Dutch anti-discrimination agency.

Host: Dionne Abdoelhafiezkhan of IZI Solutions

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This conversation was broadcast on Oct. 7 at 8:30 p.m. via Pakhuis de Zwijger’s website: https://dezwijger.nl/programma/rechtszaak-tegen-koninklijke-marechaussee/. The broadcast can also be viewed via this link. Below is a summary of the event.

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