Overview

• After 40 days without food, Maja T. halted her hunger strike on July 14 as her heart rate dropped below 30 beats per minute and doctors warned of irreversible organ damage.
• Germany’s Foreign Office will deploy envoys to Budapest this week to press for an end to her isolation, guarantee medical care and explore repatriation options.
• Extradited to Hungary in June 2024 despite a last-minute injunction from Germany’s constitutional court, Maja T. remains on trial in Budapest for alleged attacks on right-wing extremists and faces up to 24 years in prison.
• Supporters in Berlin delivered a petition with over 100,000 signatures demanding her return or transfer to house arrest after a protest march led by her father, Wolfram Jarosch.
• Saxony’s state protection office has warned of potential radicalization among solidarity campaigners seeking to recast her as a victim and challenge official narratives.