Karl Hummitzsch: The politicians did not decide on the basis of the RKI documents, i.e. this is a political decision, a
purely arbitrary, political decision without any evidence.
And that means for us, every court case based on such a political decision is a political process. Moderator:
[The human rights organization United For Freedom has invited people to a press conference
here in the Taunus region today, 17 June 2024.
A wide range of topics will be discussed.
Among others, Uwe Kranz and Karl Hummitzsch will speak on the topic: Political prisoners and human rights.
Karl Hummitzsch: So the question always arises, the question on the basis of: What have we actually achieved?
So, there are people on the streets in winter, in the snow, etc., the Monday demonstrations
across Germany, which are taking place again today.
So the people who show up, who are outside, that is a contribution that is extraordinarily important and wants to stay
that way, must stay that way, and that is why I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who regularly hold
their demonstrations throughout Germany, who do not want to and will not give up, because, as I said, it is not
over, it goes on, as this press conference clearly expresses.
And we encourage everyone to continue, i.e. for us, we are doing something that is being asked for right here, and we are very
optimistic and in a good mood, as you can see, we are eager to fight within the framework of these
possibilities, the legal possibilities that we have.
And we trust that we will get away with it, because injustice will not be sustainable in the long term.
We also need to know that the public prosecutor's office is dependent on the government, just like RKI.
They are bound by instructions, the public prosecutor's office is bound by instructions, i.e. you can instruct the public
prosecutor: You let the ones on the left ... they can get such harmless stories as a court case and the ones on
the right the violent ones, depending on how you would like the public prosecutor's office to handle it.
There is nothing we can do to change this, it is politically intended, and we are currently experiencing this in
these political court cases with the mask attestations.
The public prosecutor's office is called upon to do certain things here.
[We expect the judiciary to fulfill the role assigned to them by law, by German law.
If they did, things would look very different.
And that's where we see a gap for us as a human rights movement, to make the judges aware of this in the trials:
What is actually a political process here and what is not?
I can also comment on that.
A non-political trial would be an evidence-based trial in a court of law.
So, assuming that the RKI measures were correct, which they were, and then you negotiate on them - then you
say yes, that's what the RKI said and it's all correct.
Only we know that the RKI said something completely different.
That was not a policy, it was not decided on the basis of the RKI documents.
I.e., this is a political decision, a purely arbitrary political decision without any evidence and that means for us: Every court
case based on such a political decision is a political process.
And that's how we see it, and that's why we're currently collecting the court cases that were taken on this basis.
The judges could not have known this beforehand, because they were then also defeated by this government statement.
Now we have the RKI papers, now we have a completely new legal basis and with that we are now going forward
and saying: No, on that basis this is a political process, and then we are called upon.
Uwe Kranz: Bianca Witzschel was sentenced to two years and eight months today.
[This shows that we are not on the right track here and that the judiciary is not even thinking about carrying out
evidence-based court proceedings - court rulings - and that we really have a lot of work ahead of us to get this right.
Karl Hummitzsch: I've had the experience of the current court case in Hamburg.
The really tough act is going on in Hamburg, court-wise.
And so we have compiled documents that we then want to make available to the court.
The fact is that the judgment you (Uwe Kranz) are referring to today is still based on the old situation.
In my opinion, the RKI documents etc. have not been included in this form, because otherwise it would be clear that this was
simply done by the RKI ... . So everyone is of the same opinion.
That is one thing. It must be made clear that this is a purely politically driven decision, supported solely by the politicians.
And so this is clearly a political process and we don't want that in Germany. We don't want political prisoners and
things like that, which would be the case in this instance.
I assume that the court believes it can bring out an old piece of evidence here.
We won't go along with that.
And these are the processes that we are now looking at and we assume that all mask processes refer to this old basis. We
have everything ready - and we are taking action against it.
We have the cases, I have them all. And we intervene and see what options we have as a human rights organization.
It is a completely different approach than a lawyer's or prosecutor's or judge's approach. We are a human
rights organization. And that is a completely different area.
I wish everyone a pleasant journey home and would like to thank everyone for the constructive organization of today.