Overview

• Around 15 protesters held “Free Maja” signs and threw flyers in the Saxon state parliament, halting proceedings for two minutes before security removed them and issued a one-day ban.
• Simeon 'Maja' T. began a hunger strike in June to protest poor detention conditions in Budapest, citing prolonged isolation, nightly cell searches and severe hygiene problems.
• The activist was extradited from Germany to Hungary in summer 2024 despite a German Constitutional Court ruling that had barred the transfer.
• Maja is on trial in Budapest for alleged violent attacks on right-wing extremists during a February 2023 demonstration, raising legal and human rights concerns.
• Left-wing groups including Antifa and Rote Hilfe are intensifying calls for the German government to secure Maja’s repatriation as tensions with Hungary rise.