German anti-fascist activist on trial in Hungary over alleged assault
Raw StoryA German anti-fascist activist accused of allegedly participating in violent attacks against neo-Nazis went on trial on Friday in Hungary, as nationalist premier Viktor Orban has vowed to clamp down on "far-left violence". Maja T. was handed over to Hungary last summer, a decision that was severely criticized by a German constitutional court earlier this month, which said it had failed to take into account potentially dangerous prison conditions in Hungary, especially for LGBTQ people. But the German constitutional court in Karlsruhe said judges had not appropriately considered the conditions in Hungary's prisons -- including "overcrowding" -- and statements by Hungarian authorities were not "sufficient to rule out" torture and inhumane treatment. A second defendant in Maja T.'s case, an Italian activist named Gabriele Marchesi, was freed from prison after a Milanese court found there are risks of "inhumane and degrading treatment" in Hungarian prisons, according to Italian media reports.
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