{"id":80946,"date":"2026-09-19T07:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=80946"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T12:56:24","slug":"the-ongoing-political-prosecution-and-physical-abuse-against-a-heroic-covid-era-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=80946","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #003366;\">The Ongoing Political Prosecution and Physical Abuse Inflicted Against a Heroic Covid Era Attorney<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>SOTN Editor&#8217;s Note: This <em>Alt Media<\/em> platform was reminded by a long-time follower about the terrible plight of the very courageous Dutch Lawyer Arno van Kessel. These are his important statements regarding Arno&#8217;s current predicament; and especially about the outrageous abuses he has suffered for telling the most radioactive truths about <strong>OPERATION COVID-19<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<h2>Let&#8217;s not forget Arno van Kessel&#8212;Prosecutor of Bill Gates<br \/>\nand Mark Rutte for COVID crimes.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Arno van Kessel<\/strong>\u00a0was released from pre-trial detention in\u00a0<strong>February 2026<\/strong>\u00a0after serving approximately\u00a0<strong>260 days<\/strong> in the terrorism unit of the Penitentiary Institution (PI) in Vught.\u00a0\u00a0The court in Leeuwarden suspended his detention due to &#8220;special circumstances,&#8221; though he remains under an\u00a0<strong>ankle monitor<\/strong> and is prohibited from leaving the Netherlands or contacting co-defendants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Key updates on his status include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Disbarment:<\/strong>\u00a0Van Kessel was permanently removed from the Dutch bar roll in\u00a0<strong>July 2025<\/strong>\u00a0following repeated disciplinary breaches, including calling former Prime Minister Mark Rutte a &#8220;war criminal.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health Impact:<\/strong>\u00a0He reports suffering from\u00a0<strong>PTSD<\/strong>, stress-related rheumatism, and chronic sleep deprivation resulting from his high-security detention and night checks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legal Proceedings:<\/strong>\u00a0He maintains his innocence, claiming his arrest was a political move to silence his\u00a0<strong>civil lawsuit<\/strong>\u00a0against\u00a0<strong>Bill Gates<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mark Rutte<\/strong>, and others regarding COVID-19 vaccines. \u00a0The criminal case against him and seven others, known as the\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Barracuda&#8221;<\/strong> probe, continues to proceed without formal charges against him personally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public Support:<\/strong>\u00a0Hundreds of supporters have demonstrated outside PI Vught, arguing that the arrest was disproportionate and politically motivated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Submitted by WTC<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 class=\"title entry-title\">Arno van Kessel: The Dutch Resistance Solicitor in the Clutches of Justice \u2013 Damaged, but Not Broken in the Vught Fortress<\/h1>\n<p>Political Persecution<\/p>\n<div class=\"nv-thumb-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption fsmcfi-fig featured\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image bv-image-preloaded\" title=\"Arno van Kessel: The Dutch Resistance Solicitor in the Clutches of Justice \u2013 Damaged, but Not Broken in the Vught Fortress 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politischeverfolgung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/al_opt_content\/IMAGE\/www.politischeverfolgung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/arno-van-kessel.jpg.bv.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politischeverfolgung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/al_opt_content\/IMAGE\/www.politischeverfolgung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/arno-van-kessel-480.jpg.bv.webp 480w, https:\/\/www.politischeverfolgung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/al_opt_content\/IMAGE\/www.politischeverfolgung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/arno-van-kessel-1536.jpg.bv.webp 800w\" alt=\"Arno van Kessel, with grey hair and a short beard, dressed in a dark jacket and a white shirt, sitting in front of a bookshelf filled with brown books\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><figcaption>Arno van Kessel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nv-content-wrap entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>While in the Berlin Republic the trials against critical doctors, investigative journalists, and disagreeable dissidents dominate the headlines, a chilling judicial drama is unfolding in the neighboring Netherlands, entirely exposing the grim face of the European repressive apparatus. The case of the former solicitor Arno van Kessel has become the ultimate symbol of a new era of criminalizing the opposition in Europe. From a dedicated criminal defense lawyer to an isolated inmate in the notorious terrorism unit of the high-security prison Vught\u2014the story of a man considered by independent observers to be a classic political prisoner because he dared to legally challenge the power architecture of the globalist elites. After 260 days in the clutches of a politicized justice system, the 62-year-old is now breaking his silence: he is damaged, but mentally unbroken.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Documentation Note:<\/strong> The exclusive original interview with Arno van Kessel was published in the Dutch weekly newspaper <em>De Andere Krant<\/em> under the title<a href=\"https:\/\/deanderekrant.nl\/arno-van-kessel-beschadigd-niet-gebroken\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cArno van Kessel: beschadigd, niet gebroken\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who is Arno van Kessel?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arno van Kessel, formerly a renowned solicitor from Leeuwarden, gained international recognition during the COVID-19 coercion measures. As the legal counsel and board member of the organization <em>\u201cArtsen voor Waarheid\u201d<\/em> (Doctors for Truth), he quickly became the spearhead of legal resistance in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A Frontal Attack on Power:<\/strong> He consistently maintained an uncompromising stance against the state\u2019s vaccination policy and did not shy away from launching direct legal attacks against the highest political echelons\u2014including former Prime Minister and current NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Hugo de Jonge, and Bill Gates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bioweapon Lawsuit:<\/strong> Together with his colleague Peter Stassen, van Kessel worked on a civil lawsuit that sent shockwaves through the establishment: a legally sound documentation proving that the COVID-19 injections are a bioweapon and that those responsible knowingly accepted a genocide against humanity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Chronology of Annihilation: The Anti-Terrorism Unit Strike<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The escalation against the jurist follows a perfidious pattern designed to completely liquidate critics economically, psychologically, and socially. The timing of the raid exposes the political motivation of the authorities:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Revenge of the Deep State (June 11, 2025):<\/strong> Just a few hours after van Kessel and his colleague filed their explosive court documents, the system struck. At 5:00 a.m., a heavily armed counter-terrorism unit wearing balaclavas stormed the solicitor\u2019s home.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brutal Raid in the Bedroom:<\/strong> Van Kessel found himself in his underwear staring down the barrel of a submachine gun, while the investigating judge and the public prosecutor turned his house upside down. Nothing was found\u2014because there was nothing criminal to find. Nevertheless, a bag was pulled over his head, he was put in square handcuffs, and dragged away.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professional Liquidation (July 2025):<\/strong> Shortly after his arrest, van Kessel was definitively disbarred (<em>geschrapt<\/em>). Under the pretext of engineered professional misconduct, he was stripped of his livelihood to deprive him of his status as an officer of the court and silence him in the civil proceedings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Psychological Attrition in the \u201cTerrorism Unit\u201d of PI Vught<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From mid-June 2025 to the end of February 2026, the law-abiding jurist was held in the <em>Penitentiaire Inrichting<\/em> (PI) Vught\u2014one of the most heavily fortified prisons in Europe. He spent the initial period in total isolation: 23 hours a day in a concrete cell, without any contact with the outside world. For weeks, his wife Helena did not even know where he was being detained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Van Kessel describes the traumatic nightly checks that have left deep scars to this day: the thud of heavy boots on the concrete floor, the rustle of keys, the sudden five-second blinding glare of the LED light in the cell every few hours\u2014allegedly to check if the inmate is still alive. The consequences of this systematic sleep deprivation and psychological pressure are severe: van Kessel now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and stress-related rheumatism, takes high-dose prednisone daily, and is under electronic ankle monitor surveillance.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Placed with Psychotic Jihadists<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The boundless cynicism of the judicial system became clear in December: in an alleged \u201cexperiment,\u201d van Kessel and his co-defendant Ritske B. were placed in a unit with a group of convicted ISIS terrorists from Arnhem. When the Christian prisoners watched a documentary about Jesus Christ at Christmas, the situation escalated: the jihadists issued death threats, spat on the image of Jesus, and forced the prison management to remove all kitchen knives for safety reasons. While van Kessel was denied vital medication for months until guards intervened, the Islamists were allowed to spread their ideology undisturbed.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Fabricated Indictment: The \u201cBarracuda\u201d Case Construct<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dutch prosecution is reaching deep into the toolkit of authoritarian states. To frame van Kessel as a dangerous enemy of the state, they invented the criminal case \u201cBarracuda.\u201d The accusation: van Kessel was allegedly the ringleader of a terrorist network planning an attack on the NATO summit in The Hague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sole \u201cevidence\u201d is an eavesdropped conversation inside a car after a night out with truckers and laborers who financially supported the legal resistance. In a frustrated mood, hypothetical scenarios about resisting governments were discussed, alongside comparisons to the IRA. Although van Kessel repeatedly emphasized in that very conversation that he had no idea about violence, and had explicitly advised the truckers against illegal blockades earlier that evening, the prosecution completely stripped the statements of their context.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThey haven\u2019t found criminal evidence, and they won\u2019t find anything, because I haven\u2019t done anything criminal. They deliberately took those statements out of context to eliminate me as a solicitor in the civil proceedings.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 Arno van Kessel, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Systemic Pattern: Arno van Kessel vs. Dr. Reiner F\u00fcllmich<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The van Kessel case is not an isolated phenomenon; it fits seamlessly into the pan-European crackdown on the awakening movement. The methodical parallels to the case of the German attorney Dr. Reiner F\u00fcllmich are striking:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Criterion<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Arno van Kessel (Netherlands)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Dr. Reiner F\u00fcllmich (Germany)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Profile<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Internationally connected top jurist, critical attorney for <em>\u201cArtsen voor Waarheid\u201d<\/em>.<\/td>\n<td>Internationally renowned founder of the Corona Committee, star lawyer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>System Tactics<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Disbarment, fabrication of a terrorist organization (\u201cBarracuda\u201d).<\/td>\n<td>Months of pretrial detention under maximally harsh conditions, allegations of financial irregularities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Objective<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Deterrence of the entire legal profession: anyone who fundamentally attacks the state loses all rights.<\/td>\n<td>Splitting the resistance movement and destroying personal reputation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion: The Faith in the Rule of Law is Shattered<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Arno van Kessel, who found his faith in Jesus Christ during the COVID period, the case is crystal clear: we are living in the end times, an era where the masks of the rule of law have completely fallen. The judiciary is being weaponized to suppress the truth about the medical mass experiment and erase the memory of its victims\u2014like the operating-room nurse Monique, who chose euthanasia after suffering severe vaccine injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the torture endured and the destruction of his career in the Netherlands, van Kessel remains unbroken, looking forward to a future he intends to build with his family in Austria. Thousands of solidarity cards from across the globe overwhelmed the censorship department of PI Vught, proving that the truth cannot be locked behind concrete walls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PolitischeVerfolgung.de will continue to meticulously document the ongoing legal persecution of Arno van Kessel. This case proves: the totalitarian Euro-state tolerates no lawyers who fight for human rights against the tyranny of the elites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politischeverfolgung.de\/en\/political-prisoners\/arno-van-kessel-dutch-resistance-lawyer\/\">https:\/\/www.politischeverfolgung.de\/en\/political-prisoners\/arno-van-kessel-dutch-resistance-lawyer\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80946"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80952,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80946\/revisions\/80952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}