{"id":58042,"date":"2026-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2026\/01\/30\/two-hijab-wearing-women-subjected-to-shocking-police-assault-in-utrecht-netherlands-authorities-open-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:00:00","slug":"two-hijab-wearing-women-subjected-to-shocking-police-assault-in-utrecht-netherlands-authorities-open-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2026\/01\/30\/two-hijab-wearing-women-subjected-to-shocking-police-assault-in-utrecht-netherlands-authorities-open-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Hijab-Wearing Women Subjected to Shocking Police Assault in Utrecht, Netherlands; Authorities Open Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;color:#EE0000\">Two Hijab-Wearing<br \/>\nWomen Subjected to Shocking Police Assault in Utrecht, Netherlands; Authorities<br \/>\nOpen Investigation<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Dutch police have launched an<br \/>\nofficial investigation to assess the use of force by one of their officers<br \/>\nduring the detention of two hijab-wearing women near a shopping center in the<br \/>\ncity of Utrecht, Netherlands. The incident has sparked widespread outrage and<br \/>\ndebate across the country.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Widely circulated video footage<br \/>\nshows the officer using kicks and a baton to assault the women. The clips<br \/>\ndepict the officer grabbing one of the women by the arm and forcibly escorting<br \/>\nher, while the other woman records the incident on her phone, before both are<br \/>\nsubjected to sudden violence.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">In a statement, Utrecht police<br \/>\nacknowledged the shocking nature of the footage and stressed that they are<br \/>\ntreating the incident with utmost seriousness. The investigation includes<br \/>\nreviewing video recordings, surveillance camera footage, and statements from<br \/>\nofficers and involved parties.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">According to the police, the<br \/>\nincident was preceded by an altercation involving around 20 people. Following<br \/>\nthis, a 23-year-old woman was arrested for insulting an officer on duty, and a<br \/>\n39-year-old man was detained for obstructing justice and insulting a public<br \/>\nofficial. Both individuals are expected to face court proceedings.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">No official charges have yet<br \/>\nbeen filed against the officer, who continues to perform his duties pending the<br \/>\noutcome of the investigation. Meanwhile, the lawyer representing the two women<br \/>\nannounced plans to file a formal complaint against the officer for<br \/>\n\u201cdisproportionate use of force,\u201d noting that his clients remain traumatized by<br \/>\nthe incident.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The police union urged patience<br \/>\nand called for waiting until the investigation is complete, warning against<br \/>\nrushing to judgment before all circumstances of the case are clarified.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Source: Social media<span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:1.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;color:#EE0000\">* \u0644\u0644\u0627\u0637\u0644\u0627\u0639 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u062c\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062e\u0628\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u063a\u0629<br \/>\n\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\u060c <\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:18.0pt;line-height:\n115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u0627\u0636\u063a\u0637 (<span style=\"color:#EE0000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/ar\/ContentDetails.aspx?ID=40924\" target=\"_blank\">\u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/b><b><span dir=\"LTR\" style=\"font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Hijab-Wearing Women Subjected to Shocking Police Assault in Utrecht, Netherlands; Authorities Open Investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}