{"id":8466,"date":"2023-01-18T21:17:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T02:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=8466"},"modified":"2023-01-18T21:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T02:17:43","slug":"ursula-haverbeck-will-not-now-be-jailed-victory-for-international-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=8466","title":{"rendered":"Ursula Haverbeck will NOT now be jailed \u2013 victory for international protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/2023\/01\/18\/ursula-haverbeck-will-not-now-be-jailed-victory-for-international-protest\/\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ursual-Haverbeck-will-not-be-jailed.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ursula Haverbeck will NOT now be jailed \u2013 victory for international protest<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/author\/admin\/\">admin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/2023\/01\/18\/\"><time datetime=\"2023-01-18T19:34:55+00:00\">January 18, 2023<\/time><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/category\/germany\/\">Germany<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/category\/historical-memory-laws\/\">Historical memory laws<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/category\/ursula-haverbeck\/\">Ursula Haverbeck<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ursula Haverbeck \u2013 the 94-year old German scholar and publisher who was facing 12 months in prison for the \u2018crime\u2019 of raising questions about the \u2018Holocaust\u2019 \u2013 will <strong>not<\/strong> now be jailed, following a decision just announced in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even after the rejection of a final legal appeal last October, Ursula\u2019s tireless lawyer Wolfram Nahrath had persisted with arguments that it was unacceptable for a 94-year-old lady to be incarcerated \u2013 and the authorities seem finally to have accepted this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ursula-Haverbeck-and-Wolfram-Nahrath.jpeg?resize=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-657\"\/><figcaption><strong><em>Ursula Haverbeck with her Berlin lawyer Wolfram Nahrath<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We shall have fuller details of the Berlin decision soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is already clear is that international protests played a part in convincing the German authorities that jailing Ursula Haverbeck was a propaganda disaster for them, and that their reputation would suffer even further if the sentence were enforced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ursula-publicity-1.jpg?resize=384%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-865\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks are therefore due to her lawyer Herr Nahrath, but also to the international campaign that drew attention to the original sentence and to the tyranny of Germany\u2019s jailing of dissident historians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next step should be the repeal of the <em>volksverhetzung<\/em> law itself, which is an outrage against traditional European standards of free historical debate and rational argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jailingopinions.com\/realhistory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ursula-publicity-2.jpg?resize=512%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-866\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula Haverbeck will NOT now be jailed \u2013 victory for international protest adminJanuary 18, 2023GermanyHistorical memory lawsUrsula Haverbeck Ursula Haverbeck \u2013 the 94-year old German scholar and publisher who was facing 12 months in prison for the \u2018crime\u2019 of raising &hellip; 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