The recent court ruling in the case of Ahmad Othman, a Palestinian-German activist in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), shows that the German state’s repression isn’t just brutal – at times it is also remarkably incompetent in its attempt to disregard the laws it claims to uphold. Ahmad, who was active in the group Palästina Solidarität Duisburg (PSDU), – which was banned by the Ministry of Interior in May 2024 – had been working as a technician for the federal state of NRW. However, after PDSU was banned, his employer tried to fire him precisely because of this political activism. Yet despite having hired a law firm with 60 lawyers at its disposal, the state of NRW could not convince the court of the lawfulness of […]
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