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Police in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt shot an Afghan murder suspect, who died shortly thereafter in the hospital, Saturday. According to police reports, the 27-year-old Afghan national is said to have attacked another 23-year-old Afghan on Friday with a knife-like object in an apartment building in the town of Wolmirstedt on Saturday. The [...]

A German administrative court held on Friday that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is allowed to use the public facility of Grugahalle for the AfD’s federal party conference on June 29 and 30. In allowing the AfD access to the Grugahalle, the court held that the AfD is entitled to use public facilities, [...]

Germany’s Berlin Administrative Court dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday in which several Palestinian applicants sought to prohibit the German government from supplying arms to Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza. The motion was supported by several human rights organizations, including the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human [...]

Switzerland’s government revealed in a press conference on Monday that authorities registered cyberattacks in the run- up to the Summit on Peace in Ukraine planned on 15-16 June in Bürgenstock, Canton of Nidwalden. The President of the Swiss Confederation Viola Amherd asserted in response to a question about the adopted safety measures in preparation for [...]

Amnesty International urged the global community to focus on “human rights, justice for victims of violations, and the voice of civil society groups” during two major peace and reconstruction conferences in Ukraine, in a statement issued on Monday. There will be two major conferences held in a matter of days – the Ukraine Recovery Conference, hosted [...]

Several Dutch political parties reported a cyber attack on their websites Thursday, on the first day of the European Parliament elections. Three parties were specifically targeted in an attack claimed by a pro-Russian hacker collective. Early on Thursday morning, several party websites were inaccessible to Dutch voters. The Christian Democratic Party (CDA) announced the cyber [...]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Thursday that Germany will start deporting criminals from Afghanistan and Syria after a knife attack by an Afghan immigrant last week left one police officer dead and four more people injured, in a speech to the country’s parliament. Germany does not currently deport people to Afghanistan and Syria due to [...]

Mykyta Vorobiov is a Ukrainian-born political analyst, journalist, and political science student at Bard College Berlin. For the last two years, he has been developing articles on politics and law for CEPA, VoxEurop, JURIST, and others. Mykyta’s co-author Yelyzaveta Nezhyva is a Ukrainian activist and a political science student at Bard College Berlin. Over the [...]

Heinrich Koch, a German politician from the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, was injured in a knife attack in Mannheim on Tuesday. Koch is running for the Mannheim municipal council election on June 9. According to a statement by the Mannheim police, Koch was pursuing the suspect for damaging and stealing several election posters [...]

The German police conducted property searches targeting individuals connected to the ‘Reichsbürger’ movement on Tuesday according to a German newspaper. The action is part of an ongoing investigation into the ‘Reichsbürger’ conspiracy, a far-right organization accused of plotting to overthrow the German government and establish a new state order. First reported by the German newspaper [...]