COVID-19 protests in Netherlands

COVID-19 protests in Netherlands
COVID-19 protests in Netherlands
Part of the protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
	Protesters in Amsterdam on 5 September 2021
Date	17 January 2021 — 17 September 2022; (1 year and 8 months)
Location	Netherlands
Caused by	Dissatisfaction with COVID-19 vaccination policy and societal restrictions; Extensive dissimination of anti-government and COVID-19 misinformation through alternative media outlets; Calls to demonstrate and riot on social media;
Methods	Demonstrations; Flag desecration; Internet activism; Intimidation; Rioting; Vandalism;
Parties
Anti-government and anti-lockdown protesters; Nederland in Verzet; Samen voor Nederland; ; Rioters; Youths; Football hooligans; Right-wing extremists; COVID-19 conspiracy theorists; ;	Third Rutte cabinet Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge; ; Fourth Rutte cabinet Minister of Health Ernst Kuipers; ; Law enforcement; National Police Corps; Royal Marechaussee; ; Local vigilantes; Football supporters; Farmers; ;
Casualties
Injuries	At least 12 (as of 27 Jan 2021); 23/11/2021; 13 (3 serious)
Arrested	575+ (as of 27 Jan 2021); 23/11/2021; 173

Protests against COVID-19 in the Netherlands (Dutch: coronaprotesten) were a series of protests and riots in the Netherlands against the government COVID-19 prevention measures, which were in force between 27 January 2020 and 20 May 2022, with travel restrictions lifted on 17 September 2022. The protests came to a head with the 2021 Dutch curfew riots (Dutch: avondklokrellen) in response to a nationwide night-time curfew between 23 January and 28 April 2021. Since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands, a number of anti-lockdown protest groups and individual protesters have shifted their attention to the ongoing, largely concurrent Dutch farmers' protests against government legislation to limit agricultural pollution by downsizing livestock production.

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