Hungarian Appeals Court Cuts German Activist’s Jail Term to Seven Years
The court said one conviction was downgraded because Maja T. was an accomplice, not a co-perpetrator, in the Budapest attacks.
- On Wednesday, a Hungarian appeals court reduced the prison sentence of Maja, a German citizen convicted for assaulting suspected far-right sympathisers in Budapest in 2023, from eight years to seven.
- A lower court originally handed down an eight-year sentence in February. According to the indictment, Maja belonged to a far-left group planning an "ideological fight with violent attacks against sympathisers of the extremist right."
- The appeals court judge said the sentence was being reduced because for one count, Maja should be considered an accomplice rather than a co-perpetrator and not part of an organised criminal group.
- Hungarian authorities have given assurances that non-binary people are not subject to discrimination or violence in prisons, while Maja had previously told the court that the accusations against them were political.
- Germany's Constitutional Court ruled in February 2025 that the extradition of Maja violated the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights, while the case includes other defendants like Italian teacher Ilaria Salis.
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Hungarian appeals court cuts German activist’s jail term to seven years
BUDAPEST, Sept 30 (Reuters) - A Hungarian appeals court on Wednesday reduced the prison sentence of a German citizen convicted for assaulting suspected far-right sympathisers in Budapest in 2023 to seven years from eight. The defendant, identified onl...
Not eight, but seven years: The Court of Appeal in Budapest has reduced the prison sentence for the non-binary person Maja T. from Jena. Now, she is no longer acquitted of complicity, but of aid.
Hungarian appeals court cuts German activist's jail term to seven years
BUDAPEST, Sept 30 - A Hungarian appeals court on Wednesday reduced the prison sentence of a German citizen convicted for assaulting suspected far-right sympathisers in Budapest in 2023 to seven years from eight. Read more at straitstimes.com.
German Maja T. was found guilty, but the first-instance sentence was commuted to seven years in prison.
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BUDAPEST (ANP/DPA) - German activist Maja T. has received a reduced sentence in Hungary following a conviction for assaulting alleged far-right protesters in Budapest. The prison sentence has been reduced from eight to seven years. A Hungarian court ruled in February that T....
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