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Horst Mahler
1936–2025
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- opinion journalist
Horst Mahler (German: [ËhÉÊst ËmaËlÉ]; 23 January 1936 â 27 July 2025) was a German lawyer and political activist.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Brandenburg-Görden PrisonDates unknown
Biography
Horst Mahler (German: [ËhÉÊst ËmaËlÉ]; 23 January 1936 â 27 July 2025) was a German lawyer and political activist. He was a far-left militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction in 1970 before switching to neo-Nazism in the late 1990s. Between 2000 and 2003, he was a member of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany. From 2003, he was repeatedly convicted of Volksverhetzung ("incitement of popular hatred") and Holocaust denial, and he served much of a twelve-year prison sentence. In April 2017, Mahler was ordered back to prison for a further three and a half years. On 18 April 2017, he fled Germany, hoping to avoid prison. His attempt to receive political asylum in Hungary was rejected, and he was deported back to Germany, where he was arrested and put back in jail to finish serving his sentence.
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