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German neo-Nazi changes gender ‘so he can go to women’s prison’
Sven Liebich uses new German rule allowing people to change name without a psychiatric assessment and now lives under the name Marla-Svenja
German-Iranian women's rights activist released from Iranian prison
Nahid Taghavi, an Iranian-German women's rights activist, has been released from prison and is back in Germany after more than four years incarceration in Iran, Amnesty International said on Monday. The release of Taghavi followed concerns about the 70-year-old's health and calls from rights groups on the German government to pressure Tehran on the case.
Germany welcomes release of German Iranian rights activist from prison in Iran and her return home
Germany has welcomed the release of a German Iranian rights activist from prison in Iran and her return to Germany
German-Iranian woman Nahid Taghavi released from prison in Tehran
German-Iranian woman Nahid Taghavi has been released from prison in Iran, her daughter says. "It's over. Nahid is free! After more than four years as a political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran my
Rights group: German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi freed from captivity
Nahid Taghavi, a German-Iranian citizen who spent more than 1,500 days imprisoned in Iran, has flown safely back to Germany, according to the human rights group Amnesty International. Taghavi, an architect who was imprisoned in October 2020,
Women’s rights activist returns to Germany after over four years in Iranian custody
German-Iranian women’s rights activist Nahid Taghavi returned to Germany after being held in arbitrary detention in Iran for more than four years. Her release, announced by her family and Amnesty
Iran releases German-Iranian activist Nahid Taghavi
German-Iranian rights activist Nahid Taghavi has returned to Germany after spending four years in an Iranian prison. During that time she spent seven months in solitary confinement. Iran’s judiciary had reportedly sentenced Taghavi to ten years in prison for ‘leading an illegal group’.
Neo-Nazi facing jail for inciting hatred 'changes gender in bid to go to women's prison'
Far-right extremist Sven Liebich is facing a year and six months in prison for defamation and inciting hatred, but the ...
German Christmas market attack victim dies at hospital weeks later, increasing death toll to 6
A woman who was injured during the Dec. 20 attack at a German Christmas market died at a hospital on Monday, increasing the death toll to six.
Death toll from the German Christmas market attack rises to 6
BERLIN (AP) — The death toll in the attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg last month has risen to six ...
German Customs confiscates 90kg of Dubai chocolate from woman
Officials at Hamburg airportconfiscated 90kg of luxury chocolate from a 33-year-old woman flying in from Dubai last month.
German couple pose as volunteers to ‘murder Ukrainian refugee and steal her baby’
A German couple has confessed to killing a Ukrainian refugee and her mother as part of a plot to steal the young woman’s ...
A woman killed her lookalike to fake her own death. When she was sentenced to prison, nobody told the victim's family.
A German woman was sentenced to life for murdering her lookalike. The victim's family in Algeria only found out about the ...
German neo-Nazi jailed for inciting hatred changes gender in bid to go to women’s prison
Sven Liebich, 53, is currently serving an 18-month sentence in a men’s jail in Saxony in Germany’s east after being convicted last year on a handful of hatred and defamation charges.