#beate-zschape

#beate-zschape

Dehumanization, as a psychological and socio-political process, represents one of the most destructive phenomena in human history. It involves the denial of attributes that define individuals or social groups as human, thereby devaluing their moral status and legitimizing violence and cruelty against them.

A 20-year-old Syrian refugee has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for attempted murder and other charges. He stabbed a 30-year-old Spanish tourist in the neck at Berlin's Holocaust memorial last year. The victim sustained life-threatening injuries, requiring emergency surgery and an induced coma.

A Hungarian court has jailed a German anti-fascist activist for eight years for attacking participants at a far-right rally in Budapest. Maja T, 25, was sentenced on Wednesday after being convicted of involvement in violence ahead of the annual Day of Honour commemoration in Budapest. The event is one of the biggest neo-Nazi rallies in Europe. The defendant was accused of attempted aggravated bodily harm causing life-threatening injuries and assault committed as part of a criminal organisation.

On Wednesday (February 4, 2026), Maja T.*, an anti-fascist activist from the eastern German city of Jena (Thuringia), was found guilty by a court in Hungary of having attacked and seriously injured several suspected right-wing extremists in Budapest in February 2023. The attacks had apparently been directed at individuals thought to have participated in the annual "Day of Honor" rally of neo-Nazis from all over Europe, held in the Hungarian capital.

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