Relatives info

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Relatives Info has been a monthly magazine that has been published since the hunger strike of the imprisoned Red Army faction - terrorists since spring 1989. At the end of 2005 the magazine originally started as Hunger Strike Info was renamed Prisoner Info . Since 2009 it has only been published as an electronic journal . The main focus is on reporting on politically motivated criminals in prison and on trials with a high level of political impact. Letters from former prisoners are also published.

history

At the beginning of the 10th hunger strike by terrorists imprisoned by the RAF and other underground organizations from February 1 to May 12, 1989, relatives of the prisoners decided to publish an information sheet about the course of the strike, the health status and the goals of the prisoners. Their intention was "to report uncensored about the situation of the prisoners and to support the solidarity work." The first issue appeared on February 16, 1989 under the title Hunger Strike Info . After the hunger strike was broken off, the name was changed to Relatives Info in No. 15 of May 25, 1989 . Since then, the magazine has been published every two weeks instead of weekly. As a result of the departure of many relatives of remaining prisoners due to health reasons or death, at the end of 2005, issue 305 was renamed prisoner info . With the release of Christian Klar , the print version was discontinued at the Cologne-based GNN publishing house .

Social controversy

In the mid-1990s, Relatives Info was repeatedly involved in proceedings by the Federal Prosecutor's office for defamation of the state (Section 90a StGB, today: denigration of the state and its symbols ). Like many others, these were discontinued, often by the Hamburg public prosecutor. At the end of January 1997, a complaint was brought against the editor responsible under press law for defamation of the state because she had questioned the suicide of Wolfgang Grams, who had died during the GSG 9 mission in Bad Kleinen . The editors at the time commented on the process as follows: "This process will therefore be about whether the rulers can rewrite history and enforce their version of history through repression."

In issue 305 (November 29, 2005) the publisher Christiane Schneider announced that she and large parts of the PDS had become victims of a media campaign by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution after they moved into the Bundestag . Hamburg's President for the Protection of the Constitution, Vahldieck, said: “Any kind of politically motivated action, violent, including terrorist actions, is justified, and one identifies with the perpetrators.” The publisher sees this as an attempt by the Protection of the Constitution, a distancing of the To reach PDS and to isolate the publisher and the magazine politically. In 2008, the Hamburger Abendblatt noted in view of Schneider's third place on the list for the state election that the Office for the Protection of the Constitution had shown interest in the publisher several times. The world supports Schneider's point of view and rumors that the prisoners' info would offer "left-wing extremists" a forum.

Editions online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, January 3, 2008, No. 2, p. 18
  2. ↑ Medico International Frankfurt / Paranioa City Buchhandlung Zürich / and others (ed.), 20 years of radical - history and perspectives of autonomous media, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 1996, p. 197
  3. ↑ Rote Hilfe Zeitung 4/1997
  4. ↑ Rote Hilfe Zeitung 2/1997
  5. ↑ Relatives Info 305, p. 16
  6. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, February 16, 2008, No. 40, p. 23
  7. ↑ Die Welt, February 22, 2008, No. 45, p. 2