Overview

• Maja T. has been on hunger strike in a Hungarian prison hospital since June 5, losing around 14 kilograms and suffering critical blood values and organ stress
• Treating physicians reported her heart rate dropped to about 30 beats per minute and have proposed a pacemaker while prison doctors threatened forced feeding against her patient directive
• Her father, Wolfram Jarosch, completed a 300-kilometer march from Jena to Berlin to deliver a petition signed by over 100,000 supporters calling for her transfer back to Germany
• SPD queer policy spokesman Falko Droßmann and fellow Bundestag members cite a Federal Constitutional Court ruling that deemed her June 2024 extradition unlawful in demanding Wadephul secure her return
• The case has intensified debate over EU arrest warrant cooperation, Hungary’s rule-of-law record and the treatment of non-binary detainees under European human rights standards