Wir rufen zum internationalen Aktionstag auf die Straße in Berlin! Freiheit für Maja statt Verurteilung von Antifaschismus!

Antifascist Maja is to be convicted.

Maja’s trial is part of the so-called Budapest Complex, one of the largest waves of repression against antifascists in Europe in recent years. It began with attacks on fascists on the margins of the National Socialist commemorative day “Day of Honour” in February 2023 in Budapest. In the aftermath, Hungary and Germany launched an international manhunt, in the course of which Maja was arrested in Berlin in early December 2023.

Maja spent half a year in pre-trial detention at Dresden Prison until the night of 27 June 2024: Maja was dragged out of their cell at night by masked units, illegally flown by helicopter to Austria, and from there handed over to Hungary.
The German state is so determined to fight antifascism that it breaks its own rules.

For more than 500 days, Maja has been held in inhumane long-term solitary confinement in Hungary — and in a country in which Maja, as a non-binary person, does not exist.

Maja faces up to 24 years in prison.
In this political show trial, previous minor offenses — such as a noise disturbance from 2018 — are used to underline Maja’s supposed criminal career, and fascists appear as witnesses. A verdict is expected to be announced on January 22.

The prison conditions are inhumane: detention in a men’s prison, hardly any daylight, and daily, baseless, violent strip searches. In 2025, Maja began a hunger strike for better conditions and to be brought back.

This development does not happen in isolation: AI-based surveillance of society, such as through the new police law in Berlin, and the classification of antifascism as terrorism in the USA and Hungary, are meant to target those who do not submit to the system, while fascism is on the rise.

The repression is directed against all of us. Maja is meant to be paraded as an example to intimidate us — but Maja is an example of resistance.

Let us bring resistance to life on the nationwide day of action on January 15!