Heike Schrader

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Heike Schrader (* 1965 ) is a German journalist living in Greece . For supporting the terrorist DHKP-C was in 2008 by the Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf to imprisonment sentenced 22 months on probation.

background

Schrader said she was active in a human rights center in Cologne between 1996 and 1998 and had contacts with the DHKP-C in the course of this activity. Schrader published articles about the conditions in Turkey, translated texts from Turkish into German and had founded a politically left-wing publishing house. Among other things, she published a magazine that was banned in Germany in August 1998 together with the DHKP-C. From the contacts with the DHKP-C, the Federal Prosecutor's Office drew the conclusion that Schrader had "several times participated in meetings of high-ranking officials" of the DHKP-C, at which the "planning and preparation of arson and homicides" had been the focus and made 2001 against Schrader issued an arrest warrant.

In 2005, this was revised and Schrader was put out to an international search. At this time Schrader was already writing - among other media - for Telepolis and the young world and was registered in both Greece and Germany. She did not evade criminal prosecution by informing the authorities and was not informed of the arrest warrant. Most recently, according to her statement, she was out and about at events in Germany in March 2007, where her name was published in the media and printed on posters.

At the end of 2007, she accepted an invitation from Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag to present the book “Guantanamo in Greek: Contemporary Torture in the Rule of Law” by Savvas Xiros, which she had translated into German . Xiros was a member of the Greek terrorist organization November 17th and was sentenced to several life imprisonment in 2003. He was seriously injured in Greece in 2002 when his bomb exploded in his hands while preparing for an attack. He writes in this book that he was tortured and forced to testify in the intensive care unit after his arrest. Schrader was arrested while leaving the plane at the Rhenish airport and transferred to a prison in Bonn . The following day she was brought before the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe , which suspended the arrest warrant against conditions. The publisher deposited a deposit of 5000 euros, Schrader had to hand in her passport, report to the police weekly and was not allowed to leave the Federal Republic.

The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court sentenced her to one year and ten months' imprisonment for supporting a terrorist organization, which was suspended for three years . A membership in the DHKP-C could not be proven Schrader. The judgment was accepted by her and thus final.

Publications

Translations

  • Savvas Xiros : Guantanamo in Greek: Contemporary Torture in the Rule of Law , Pahl-Rugenstein, 1st edition, December 10, 2007, 129 pages, ISBN 9783891443941

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald Neuber: 129a: Reading tour behind bars - How the Telepolis author Heike Schrader came under the focus of state security , Telepolis from December 13, 2007
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Nowak : suspended sentence for supporting a terrorist organization , Telepolis of December 10, 2008
  3. ↑ a b Harald Neuber: Terrorist charge against a journalist: Foreign correspondent Heike Schrader in the sights of the state guards , M - Menschenmachen Medien , No. 01/02 2008
  4. ↑ Christian Rath: Accusation from a previous life , taz of December 8, 2008
  5. ↑ Christian Rath: Journalist under suspicion of terrorism , taz, December 13, 2007
  6. ↑ European Court of Human Rights : Xiros v. Greece (application no. 1033/07) , decision of 9 September 2010
  7. ^ Harald Neuber: Terror offense press work. Verdict in the Schrader case: End of a questionable process , M - Menschenmachen Medien , No. 01/02 2009
personal data
SURNAME Schrader, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist in Greece, convicted of supporting a terrorist organization
DATE OF BIRTH 1965