{"id":284,"date":"2018-12-18T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=284"},"modified":"2024-01-10T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T18:27:39","slug":"netherlands-appeal-against-liberian-sanctions-conviction-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2018\/12\/18\/netherlands-appeal-against-liberian-sanctions-conviction-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands &#8211; appeal against Liberian sanctions conviction dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch Supreme Court has <a href=\"https:\/\/uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl\/#!\/details?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2018:2336&amp;showbutton=true&amp;keyword=Sanctiewet&amp;idx=4\">dismissed the appeal<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2017\/04\/21\/netherlands-19-year-jail-term-upheld-on-appeal\/\">19-year sentence<\/a> for (amongst other crimes) breach of the EU&#8217;s Liberian sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal was largely on the grounds that the Liberian government had granted an amnesty which was said to apply. The Supreme Court disagreed, and in any event held that such an amnesty is incompatible with Dutch obligations under the European Convention of Human Rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal against the 19-year sentence for (amongst other crimes) breach of the EU&#8217;s Liberian sanctions. The appeal was largely on the grounds that the Liberian government had granted an amnesty which was said to apply. The Supreme Court disagreed, and in any event held that such an amnesty &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2018\/12\/18\/netherlands-appeal-against-liberian-sanctions-conviction-dismissed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netherlands &#8211; appeal against Liberian sanctions conviction dismissed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[37,20,59,31,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-73","tag-custodial-sentence","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-liberia","tag-netherlands","tag-trade-sanctions"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}