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2025 Grundrechte-Report Warns of Accelerating Erosion of Civil Liberties in Germany

The report highlights threats to freedoms of opinion and assembly, state misuse of legal frameworks, and systemic police violence as urgent challenges to constitutional rights.

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Overview

  • The 2025 Grundrechte-Report, released by ten civil society organizations, documents increasing restrictions on fundamental rights, particularly freedoms of opinion and assembly.
  • The report criticizes the use of the IHRA antisemitism definition to suppress dissent, including academic and civil society criticism of Israel-related policies.
  • Chancellor Friedrich Merz's plan to host ICC-indicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been flagged as a violation of international law.
  • Cases of police violence, including the death of Ante P. during a police intervention, are cited as examples of systemic accountability failures.
  • The report calls for civic mobilization to counteract rights erosion and challenges the state's invocation of 'Staatsräson' to justify legal and political measures against dissent.