The Amsterdam Higher District Court has imposed a fine of 750 Guilders (about $200) on a local electrical installations firm for certifying that two of its employes sent on a project to Saudi Arabia were not Jewish.
The case developed two years ago when the firm, Flakt, stated, in its application for Saudi visas, that the employes’ religion was Christian and that they had no relations with Israel.
A complaint of racial discrimination was lodged by the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) under an amendment to the criminal code dating from 1981. The Netherlands Supreme Court referred the case to the Amsterdam Higher District Court after a lower court ruled there was no racial discrimination in the firm’s action.
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