Top heavyweight kickboxer Badr Hari was told on Tuesday by the Supreme Court in the Netherlands that his appeal against a 2015 sentence has been denied and that he must return to the Netherlands to serve another six months in custody. Hari had previously served eight months of the original two-year sentence and had appealed to have it commuted to time-served.
Hari's conviction stemmed from incidents in 2011 and 2012, the most serious of which was an aggravated assault on entrepreneur Koen Everink at a dance music event in Amsterdam. Everink, a multi-millionaire, was assaulted in a VIP box at the event and was left with shattered bones in his ankle after having it stamped on repeatedly.