American suspects of people smuggling Schiphol are released | Inland

According to the Chinese human rights organization ChinaAid, the victims are Michael Horowitz and Devra Marcus. Horowitz was a key aide to President Ronald Reagan.

A spokeswoman for the Public Prosecution Service Noord-Holland said on Tuesday that the two suspects will be sent away. “The investigation into this case will be completed and then the file will be sent to the Public Prosecution Service. The public prosecutor will then study the file and make a final decision,” said the spokeswoman.

Kazakh activist

The Kazakh family that was accompanied by the Americans is entering the asylum procedure. According to ChinaAid, it concerns the wife and children of Kazakh activist Serikzjan Bilash. The human rights organization claims that the authorities of Kazakhstan labeled Serikzjan Bilash a terrorist and imprisoned him for a while in 2019. He is said to have denounced the situation of Kazakhs and Uyghurs in concentration camps in China’s Xinjiang province. According to ChinaAid, the activist left Kazakhstan in 2019 and has been living separately from his family ever since.

Bob Fu, chairman of ChinaAid, called on the Dutch government on Twitter to release the American couple immediately. He called the arrests unjustified and said the couple should be rewarded for their efforts to save a Kazakh family.

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