Einstellung der §129(a)-Verfahren - sofort!

The urban section of the American Political Science Association (worldwide membership: over 15.000) passed a resolution to condemn the charges against Andrej and the others.

EI which represents the voice of educators worldwide, including professionals in the higher education and research sector, condemns the arrest of German academic, Andrej Holm.

RC21 demands to immediately suspend all the proceedings based on § 129a.

We write on behalf of the governing Council of the American Sociological Association (ASA), the national organization for sociologists in the United States with over 14,000 members who are faculty members of colleges and universities, researchers, practitioners and students in the United States and internationally.

We are writing to express our grave concern with the abuse of democracy and freedom recently committed by the German government against Andrej Holm and other individuals, for alleged membership in, or support of, a so-called "militante gruppe."

We the International Critical Geography Group vehemently protest the arrest and incarceration of our academic colleague Andrej Holm, an urban sociologist at the Institute for Social Research at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

It has recently come to my attention through numerous American and European academic organizations that a number of academics in the normal pursuit of their scholarship and research have been arrested and continue to be held as charged with “membership in a terrorist association according to § 129a StGB”.

Habitat International Coalition (HIC) demands the immediate suspension of all proceedings against all parties concerned and release from jail at once Dr. Holm and the others and the abolition § 129, 129a, and 129b laws.

This is a letter of protest and petition against the abuse of academic freedom recently committed in Germany against a number of individuals including Andrej Holm for alleged membership of a terrorist organisation or supporting such an organisation.

Urban Poor Associates, an NGO from the Philippines, demands the immediate suspension of all proceedings against all parties concerned and release from jail at once Dr. Holm and the others and the abolition § 129, 129a, and 129b laws.