{"id":183327,"date":"2025-11-06T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=183327"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:58","slug":"voormalig-uva-docent-buijs-krijgt-vijf-maanden-celstraf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2025\/11\/06\/voormalig-uva-docent-buijs-krijgt-vijf-maanden-celstraf\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UvA lecturer Buijs sentenced to five months in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former University of Amsterdam lecturer Laurens Buijs has been sentenced to five months in prison, three of which are suspended. He defamed colleagues online and shared their personal details.<\/p>\n

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Laurens Buijs as a guest in the Youtube channel of Flavio Pasquino, a self-declared complot theorist.<\/span><\/p>

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On social media platforms X and Facebook, Buijs accused colleagues, journalists and doctors of paedophilia, corruption and genocide, among other things. He referred to one as \u2018a cold-blooded paedophile serial killer\u2019 and another as \u2018a first-class rat and paedophile psychopath from a dangerously far-left family\u2019.<\/p>\n

He also shared personal information of several victims, such as names, photos and addresses, and called for a \u2018people\u2019s tribunal\u2019 to be held on Dam Square in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

\u2018Remorseful\u2019<\/h2>

Buijs was a lecturer and researcher at the University of Amsterdam for many years, specialising in gender, sexuality and diversity. He gained attention after warning<\/a> of what he saw as a \u2018radical woke culture\u2019 within the university in Folia<\/em>. Not long after, he began harassing colleagues via Twitter.<\/p>\n

According to his lawyer, Buijs is remorseful for his actions and \u2018is no longer the same person who made these statements\u2019. A psychiatrist who assessed Buijs diagnosed him with \u2018depression with anxious tension\u2019 and a possible bipolar disorder. He is also reported to have problematic cannabis use.<\/p>\n

Prison sentence<\/h2>

Buijs was ultimately found guilty of doxing, defamation, insult, threats and incitement. He was sentenced<\/a> to five months in prison (which he had already served in pre-trial detention), three of which are suspended. He is also banned from contacting the individuals he wrote about online for two years.<\/p>\n

According to the court, his behaviour is not protected under the right to freedom of expression. His statements \u2018contributed to further polarisation in society\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\t

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