More than seven and a half years after the serious attack by neo-Nazis on two journalists in Fretterode (Thuringia) in April 2018, the appeal trial against two neo-Nazis from the Mühlhausen Regional Court begins two days before Christmas on Monday, December 22, 2025.
Keyword: Freedom of the press
Search warrant executed at journalists' homes following criticism of the length of the Fretterode trial
Press release dated September 14, 2022, regarding a house search at a journalist's home in connection with the so-called Fretterode trial
Press release: Administrative Court of Stade strengthens the rights of journalists – Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office loses case due to years of unlawful data storage
In a judgment dated April 28, 2022 (Case No.: 10 A 553/19), published on July 11, 2022, the Administrative Court of Stade strengthened the rights of specialist journalists who publish on right-wing extremism and are unjustly subjected to criminal charges for defamation, etc. The judgment…
PM – Attack on photographer near Fretterode: Trial for suspected aggravated robbery begins at the Mühlhausen Regional Court on January 26, 2021
Press release dated December 21, 2020, regarding the start of the trial at the Mühlhausen Regional Court following an attack on journalists on April 29, 2018, in Fretterode


