Good news!
Good news: All - Andrej, Axel, Florian, and Oliver - are released from prison. Section 129a ("terrorist group") is no longer an issue, but they are treated as criminals now. The case is ongoing. For further informations see: 
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Petition
Please sign the Open Letter to protest the arrests!
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On 31st July 2007 the flats and workplaces of Dr. Andrej H. and Dr. Matthias B., as well as of five other persons, were searched by the police. Dr. Andrej H. was arrested, flown by helicopter to the German Federal Court in Karlsruhe and brought before the custodial judge. Since then he has been held in pretrial confinement in a Berlin jail.
A few hours before the house searches, Florian L., Oliver R. und Axel H.were arrested in the Brandenburg region and accused of attempted arson on four vehicles of the German Federal Army. Andrej H. is alleged to have met one of these three persons on two occasions in the first half of 2007 in supposedly “conspiratorial circumstances”. They, too, have been held in pretrial confinement in a Berlin jail. All seven people have been charged with “membership in a terrorist association according to § 129a StGB” (German Penal Code, section 7 on‘Crimes against Public Order’). They are alleged to be members of a so-called ‘militante gruppe’ (mg). The text of the search warrant revealed that preliminary proceedings against these four people have been going on since September 2006 and that the four had since been under constant surveillance.
We demand that the Federal Prosecutor (Bundesanwaltschaft) immediately suspend the § 129a-proceedings against all parties concerned and to release Andrej H. and the other imprisoned from jail at once. We strongly reject the outrageous accusation that the academic research activities and the political engagement of Andrej H. are to be viewed as complicity in an alleged “terrorist association”. No arrest warrant can be deduced from the academic research and political work of Andrej H.. The Federal Prosecutor, through applying Article § 129, is threatening the freedom of research and teaching as well as social-political engagement.
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Initial signatures by:
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| Name | Lawrence Berg |
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| Country | Canada |