Dutch municipalities are increasingly setting requirements for which asylum seekers they’re willing to shelter. They’d rather take in women and children, and not single men, unaccompanied children, or people from “safe” countries, NRC reports based on its own research. That’s discrimination based on nationality, age, and gender, experts pointed out to the newspaper.
The police ended an Extinction Rebellion protest in Amsterdam city hall on Thursday evening. The authorities asked the climate activists to leave just after 9:00 p.m. About an hour later, the police cleared the hall. Some of the activists left on their own accord; others did not. The police arrested at least five protesters.
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