Overview

• Maja T. was moved 260 kilometres south of Budapest after losing over 12 kilograms and becoming severely weakened in a hunger strike against solitary confinement, shackling and unhygienic detention conditions.
• Her lawyer Tamas Bajaky and her father Wolfram Jarosch confirmed the transfer and warned that the absence of medical interpreters at the facility could expose her to forced interventions.
• A Hungarian court recently denied her application for house arrest, citing a high flight risk ahead of a trial where prosecutors seek up to 24 years’ imprisonment for alleged violence against right-wing extremists in February 2023.
• Her June 2024 extradition from Germany, carried out despite a last-minute injunction by the Federal Constitutional Court, has intensified debates over the European Arrest Warrant framework and cross-border judicial cooperation.
• Members of the Greens and The Left have visited Budapest to demand her repatriation and a rights-compliant trial in Germany, while the Auswärtiges Amt provides consular support but defers any transfer decision to Hungarian courts.