Michael Mannheimer's Continuing Lawfare Odyssey in Germany

by Andrew E. Harrod
Family Security Matters
September 4, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2980/michael-mannheimer-continuing-lawfare-odyssey-in

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As previously reported at the Middle East Forum's Legal Project, the independent German journalist and researcher Michael Mannheimer received on February 14, 2012, a 2,500 Euro fine from a local German court (Amtsgericht) under German laws against hate speech (Volksverhetzung) for his remarks condemning Islam as an aggressive and authoritarian belief system. Specifically, the court cited Mannheimer's April 8, 2011, internet manifesto calling for "resistance" against the German political and media "establishment" on the basis of a charged uncritical acceptance of unassimilated mass Muslim migration to Germany. Now this past August 16, 2012, Mannheimer's "at the moment coalescing and anonymous legal team" has issued a press release concerning the latest developments in Mannheimer's appeal of his preliminary conviction under a Strafbefehl or punishment order. The press release is available online in German at the conservative German website Politically Incorrect (PI), the original publisher of Mannheimer's manifesto. Judging from this document, Mannheimer's fight for free speech is far from over.

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