Tag: Dresden
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Antifa trial in Budapest: One defendant admits membership in organisation, two deny accusations
The trial against three activists from Germany and Italy began in Budapest. One of them was sentenced subsequently to three years in prison. A German secret service is seeking a deal for other wanted persons. Antifa activist Tobias E., who…
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Police in Leipzig to return cell phones: Devices were seized from 380 people as “means of violence”
On “Day X”, police in the German city of Leipzig confiscated cell phones from 380 demonstrators. Those affected were threatened with costs for their decryption. A similar procedure is known from 2015. On the so-called “Day X” on June 3…
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Authorities to tighten imprisonment for deportation after two asylum seekers escaped in Dresden
Detention pending deportation is not a punishment, emphasise members of the Left Party after two Algerians managed to flee from a detention centre. Meanwhile, right-wingers are calling for a “manhunt”. After the successful escape of two rejected asylum seekers from…
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Mass confiscation of mobile phones by police after spontaneous anti-rascist demonstration
On Thursday 16 January around 600 people in Leipzig took part in a spontaneous demonstration against racism focused on the murder of Khaled Idris Bahray, a 20-year-old Ertirean refugee who was found stabbed to death two days earlier in Dresden,…