Open Letters

Two open letters demand the release of the prisoners. One was published on August 15th by 40 international profesors and can be signed online. The demands are:

We demand that the Federal Prosecutor (Bundesanwaltschaft) immediately suspend the § 129a-proceedings against all parties concerned and to release Andrej Holm and the other imprisoned from jail at once. We strongly reject the outrageous accusation that the academic research activities and the political engagement of Andrej Holm are to be viewed as complicity in an alleged “terrorist association”. No arrest warrant can be deduced from the academic research and political work of Andrej Holm. The Federal Prosecutor, through applying Article § 129, is threatening the freedom of research and teaching as well as social-political engagement.

Another open letter, already signed by a some hundred people, can be signed, too. The demands are:

We hereby petition the office of the federal prosecutor to drop the charge that Dr. Andrej H.'s academic writings constituted intellectual participation in a terrorist organization. Nothing in Dr. Andrej H.'s scholarly work justifies an arrest warrant. This line of reasoning represents a fundamental threat to intellectual and academic freedom.

Likewise, we hereby petition for an immediate cease in the investigation of Dr. Andrej H. in accordance with § 129a StGB, which calls for an especially harsh detention and restrictions in legal defense. 

17.08.2007