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The British research collective Bellingcat is
planning to expand into the Netherlands and to open a permanent office in The
Hague, the organisation confirmed to DutchNews.nl on Friday.
‘The current plan
is to open an office in The Hague, which will have teams working on Yemen,
Syria, and Libya,’ founder Eliot Higgins said. The office will also host ‘a
team focused on working with local groups on local issues’ and more MH17
revelations are on the way, he said.
Higgins, in the Netherlands for the Den
Bosch Data Week, told the NRC in an interview on Friday that the organisation
has applied for funding from the Postcode Lottery foundation to help establish
the first Bellingcat operation outside the UK.
The aim is to set up an
operation in the Netherlands to support the work of the International Criminal
Court in The Hague with open source material, the NRC said.
Bellingcat was
founded in 2014 after a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and has since hit the
headlines with revelations about shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine and
the Skripal poisoning case in Britain, among others
The organisation funds its
operations by giving workshops to journalists, students and civil servants as
well as donations from both charitable institutions and private individuals.
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