"This is the ancestral home reloaded in the worst shape," 129-b trial of suspected DHKP-C members hardly noticed. Defendant need solidarity. A conversation with Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Schneider
Interview: Mark Bernhardt
* Dr. Heinz-Juergen Schneider is a lawyer in Hamburg. As a criminal defense lawyer in political processes, he represented numerous clarifications including Kurds since 1982 and former RAF member Christian. He currently represents clients such as Mustafa Atalay in Stammheimer 129-b-process; www.tribunal-online.de
represent you Mustafa Atalay, against the case currently before the Higher Regional Court Stuttgart-Stammheim a 129-b-process (criminals and terrorist groups in foreign countries) is held. Atalay and four other men are accused members of the Turkish Revolutionary People's Liberation Party - Front (DHKP-C) to be. How do you assess the recent history?
The process takes a long time. In early July we had over 100 trial days behind us. Chill well over half of all the witnesses came from the police force and intelligence agencies. Many have a lecture for hours "endorsements." This is not an inquiry.
The detention lasts for five defendants in since November 2006. It is performed with insulation and special conditions. All requests for dismissal were unsuccessful. There are two serious diseases, which cancel the bond, according to the defense and negotiation skills.
problematic principle and unacceptable is the use of so-called evidence from Turkey. They are due to the continuing practice of torture there is generally inadmissible. However, there are folders as material from Turkey, and the chief anti-terrorist fighters from Istanbul was briefly heard as a witness - was able to demonstrate to the defense that have been made against him two charges of torture in the service.
Mustafa Atalay, despite severe cardiac disease remains imprisoned. On what grounds?
My client was arrested from a rehabilitation clinic out by employees of the Federal Criminal Office. While in custody was a fresh medical procedure because two bypasses to the heart were clogged again. Today, he gets eight to ten drugs administered daily. All that is known to the court. The decisions for continued detention, most recently in April and May, but a dismissal is denied. There is considerable suspicion and risk of flight. Even a dismissal with various conditions has not agreed to the court.
Why is the process in the media do not like how the present case, the "suitcase bombers" or the "Sauerland Group"?
Then I also like to know the answer. Actually, it's like this: For the "Stuttgart 5," there could be a left-wing solidarity work. It is a "pilot process" is in the decision for other groups in Germany and the German solidarity work important. And are there armed organizations not only in Turkey. But the work to the process is very limited. The liberal journals will have enough points for reports: A mentally ill and convicted in Germany of the Turkish secret service agent's evidence, documents as evidence of torture, both physically and mentally ill in the dock - Stammheim reloaded in the worst shape. But nothing happened, although editors have been addressed.
, paragraphs 129a and b of the Criminal Code underestimated? The section 129a is
it already for decades. The political self-preservation forbids it to underestimate this practice. And that does not happen. The state security actions against the so-called militant group, "mg, and protesters against the G-8 summit were accompanied by media reports, there was solidarity and protest. It is known that the section is an fishing expeditions 129a paragraph. Because in 90 percent of the investigations are terminated without trial. And there are parties, groups, and "scenes a sense of a threat and" - more or less well - even resulting behavior.
The 129b has existed since August 2002. I guess since there were almost 200 investigations, and few processes - almost all against Islamists. Beyond the buzzword is little knowledge about a hazard to structures left by that rule.
It shows the Stammheim trial that is about the criminalization of legitimate activities. The local defendants are accused of setting up clubs, demo participation, organization of trainings, collecting money, or the holding of cultural events. Everything in the design, here the "European return front" for the "terror squads in Turkey" active.
the case against the journalist Heike Schrader and their condemnation as the quasi as "Presseprecherin the DHKP-C in Europe," the extent to solidarity work can come in Germany to the attention of the security.
also a former member of the "Red Army Faction," have represented Christian thought. How would you move to the massive media campaigns to your clients?
The most important thing is yes, he's out there since last December. And the paparazzi chase after the first photo is over. Otherwise, the memory of the first months of 2007, the greeting for the Rosa Luxembourg Conference of the young world to the rejection of the clemency petition. Such political and media slurry is poured over any other person in recent years.
one follows the Stammheimer process and the propaganda against Christian thought, one feels at times to the campaign against leftists in the 1970s recalls. Upgraded the country again?
would point he disarmed the last time? The difference in the seventies to today: Back then there were more heavy-handed "top-down propaganda," the BKA computers were as big as refrigerators and no state protectors have something connected with the concept of GPS tracking. Today, the public campaign is more subtle - what can be modified as necessary, but the State Trojan comes to the PC and GPS-locating is a normal investigation resources.
From: anti-repression, garnish the agf of 08/07/2009
"platform for the freedom of Mustafa Atalay" wide 129-b method 
