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In 2021, it was reported that at least 272 police officers in Germany were being investigated over their alleged links to far-right groups or for committing far-right crimes. A report from the Interior Ministry the following year covering the three-year period between July 2018 and July 2021 identified 327 cases of far-right extremists working in the police, military, and intelligence services.
According to a May 2021 Interior Ministry report, Germany recorded 23,064 far-right crimes in 2020, more than half of all politically motivated crimes and an increase of 6 percent from the previous year. The ministry noted an 18.8 percent increase in violent hate crimes to a total of 3,365 offenses.
May 8, 2024 · The AfD has repeatedly rejected accusations of extremism. ... Elected to Germany's Bundestag in 2021, he was effectively barred from joining the AfD's parliamentary faction, after damaging ...
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Official statistics published in May showed an increase in politically motivated crimes in 2020, particularly hate crimes carried out by right-wing extremists. Anti-immigrant and antisemitic crimes increased by 72 and almost 16 percent, respectively, over the previous year. In August, Germany's Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency published figures s...
In the first known trial dealing with state-sponsored torture in Syria, and making use of Germany’s universal jurisdiction laws, a Koblenz court sentencedin February 2021 a former Syrian intelligence officer to four-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the torture of protestors in Syria in 2011. A verdict in the ongoing trial of a second defe...
In January, a new lawentered into force granting better protections to foreign workers in the meat processing industry. The law was adopted after Covid-19 outbreaks in meat processing plants in 2020 exposed horrific working conditions in the industry. In June, parliament adopted a new law on supply chains requiring large companies to identify and a...
In the first eight months of 2021, 85,230 people applied for asylumin Germany, an increase of 33.2 percent compared to the same period last year. Most applicants came from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. By the end of August, 75,579 applications were pending. Undocumented migrants in Germany had difficulties accessing Covid vaccines according to Doct...
In June, parliament adopteda law allowing federal police and intelligence services to use spyware to hack devices and access encrypted data, raising privacy concerns. In May, parliament amended the controversial Network Search Act (NetzDG) to better counter hate speech online but the amendments still fail to address concerns regarding the impact of...
According to a May reportcommissioned by the European Parliament, the Covid-19 crisis could exacerbate already-existing gender inequalities in Germany because women engage more than men in unpaid care, are over-represented in part-time work, and experience lower salaries, increasing the likelihood of female poverty. In May, a court fined a gynecolo...
As the EU’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, Germany is contributing to the climate crisis which is taking a growing toll on human rights around the globe. In 2021, the constitutional court held that the 2019 climate change law does not adequately regulate emission reductions and violates the government’s obligation to protect rights. Since the ruli...
In its Action Plan for Human Rights 2021/22, the German government pledged to mainstream human rights in all its policy areas. Germany’s foreign policy should be measured against this principle. Germany stepped up its engagement at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, leading or supporting action on countries such as Belarus, China, Egypt, Ethiop...
Discrimination and Intolerance. Racism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia, including violent hate crimes, remained a concern. According to government data, in the first half of 2020, 9,305 “far ...
Jun 25, 2021 · There is a version of Germany known around the world. A liberal democracy, an economic powerhouse in Europe and a country that atones for the Holocaust with memorials and history lessons in every ...
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Apr 13, 2021 · The Rise of Right Wing Extremism. In March, 2021, the German intelligence agency, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), announced the far-right authoritarian party, Alternative for Germany Party (AfD), would be put under surveillance. In essence, the BfV legally has access to AfD member’s phones and will monitor their activities and ...
