Ann Willems
Katja Wauters
Ambassador's Secretariat
H.E. Ambassador Johan Verbeke
Dear Ms. Willems and Ms. Wauters,
It has come to my attention that Marianne Maeckelbergh (US citizen and professor at the University of Leiden, Netherlands) was arrested for taking pictures while police were making violent arrests in Brussels, Belgium during last a protest Friday. Not only was she arrested, but she reports that "she was violently dragged by her hair, chained to a radiator, hit, kicked, spat upon, called a whore, and threatened with sexual assault by the police. She also witnessed the torture of another prisoner also chained to a radiator."