After the initial remarks by government spokesman Launsky-Tieffenthal, Chancellor Kurz (ÖVP), Vice-Chancellor Strache (FPÖ) and Foreign Minister Kneissl on the case of Max Zirngast on September 11 and 12, 2018, there has been little word from official sources on the matter. Foreign Minister Kneissl has now made a number of comments regarding this case. We…
We are documenting Elisa’s speech at the Thursday demonstration on October 11 in Vienna. “I am here in the name of the Solidarity Campaign #FreeMaxZirngast. Max Zirngast is an activist and journalist, who’s been detained in Turkey for a month now. He lives and works in Ankara since 2015. I got to know Max as…
Max Zirngast has been under arrest for more than a month. For a bulk of that time, he was in the Sincan-2 High-Security Prison, which is 60 kilometers away from Ankara. Contact with him is difficult and strictly limited. The letters that he was able to mail around September 28th are arriving only now –…
The decision of the Penal Justice of the Peace in Ankara to eject one of Max Zirngast’s attorneys from criminal proceedings was once again confirmed. Tamer Doğan is going to appeal again. On September 18th, a week after Max Zirngast’s detention, the 4th Penal Justice of the Peace in Ankara sent an order to…
