Human Rights Advocate threatened: “They even figure out my secret code” – Yahoo! News

Threatening text messages and phone calls. Human rights lawyer Nada Kiswanson who works in The Hague, said she is systematically threatened. According to her, Israel is behind it, because they do investigate war crimes in the country.

Nada Kiswanson does the ICC investigate human rights violations by Israel. Since she has started the thing, she regularly gets threatening phone calls. According to her, there can only be one culprit: Israel.

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“The threats are quite sophisticated, because they know how to find out my secret numbers,” she told RTL Nieuws. “There is a direct link between the threats and work. There is only one party that has an interest in that I quit my job, and that is Israel.”

Regularly getting Kiswanson calls and sms ‘jes where threats are made. Also friends and family receive messages. “For example, once said that if I did not quit my job, then I disappear from the earth.”

Please continue

Kiswanson also recalls an incident in which she was harassed by a man in a playground. Extra intense because her daughter was there. “When I came home a bouquet of flowers, then stood with a note:” Please continue to keep going. “

Or is she afraid? “The goal is to intimidate me. I’m worried about, but I also know that the goal is to scare me. I do not gun.”

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According to Middle East correspondent Olaf Koens applies this way of working within a policy that Israel has been pursuing for years. “Organizations, institutions and individuals that can harm be hard tackle land damage. That happens at home and abroad and also within and outside the law.”

The Foreign Ministry has announced that he is aware of the case. “The minister takes the matter seriously and attaches great importance to employees of civil society organizations in the Netherlands and abroad to do their work freely and safely,” said the ministry.

The Israeli embassy does not want to respond to Yahoo! News on “the absurd accusations.” The Dutch OM takes the threats seriously and doing research.

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