Hungarian court jails left-wing German activist for 8 years for assault

A German citizen was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Hungarian court on Wednesday for assaulting suspected far-right sympathisers in Budapest in 2023, as part of an anti-fascist group that had gone to Hungary to counter a far-right rally.

The German citizen, identified only as Maja T., was arrested in Berlin in December 2023 on a European arrest warrant and was subsequently transferred to Hungary.

The presiding judge found Maja T. guilty of “attempting bodily harm… as part of an organised crime group”.