Germany’s Free Speech Trial: A Meme, a Minister, and the Criminalization of Dissent

Editor-in-Chief of Deutschland Kurier David Bendels via Deutschland Kurier

In what most Americans would consider unthinkable, a prominent German journalist working in the country’s alternative media, has been slapped with seven-month suspended prison sentence for sharing a satirical meme mocking a former left-globalist government minister.

The case has ignited international concern over Germany’s accelerating war on free expression—and raised eyebrows far beyond Europe.

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