Hey, everybody. My guest today is William Ankel, who has been released from prison.

Welcome to freedom. Again, William William is one of the most high-profile European activists.

He's been imprisoned twice in the Netherlands. He has a degree in biopharmacy and analytical

chemistry. His advocacy has been extraordinary. And you're on a number of the calls that I

also am on regularly with the European activists and lawyers. You know, I'm just, I'm really

grateful for your leadership. Tell us how you got arrested when you were at the voting booth, right?

Exactly. So it was quite an event. A few weeks ago, after casting my vote, what I thought was

the thugs came at me and they handcuffed me and said, you're under arrest for sedition and

incitement. So I was very surprised because there is a case, but that's from 2020. And they would

bring it in front of court on the 30th of March. And this first arrest was on the 16th of March.

So I was surprised. I thought, well, the court case is still coming up, but this was a new case

and they brought me in. There was no real reason to. They could have called me. I could have gone

to the police station. But I think they wanted to give a message to other activists and other

public journalists that if you keep speaking out, then we will silence you. So I was imprisoned

for two weeks. They released me on the special condition that I could not post anything on social

media. Now, I got out. I didn't do anything on social media, but I gave a few interviews.

And because of those interviews on my next trip to a demonstration, I was arrested again,

full of the highway, because I was visible on social media. This swathed the public opinion so

much that even the mainstream media cried out about this suppression of the freedom of speech.

A few days later, I was released and those restrictions were lifted. So that was a huge win

in public debate for free speech. In our country, we have the First Amendment, which guarantees

free speech to American citizens. We don't really have it anymore in our country, but we just

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