German Journalist Sentenced to Seven Months’ Probation for Meme Poking Fun at the Interior Minister’s Lack of Commitment to Free Speech

Apr 10th 2025 3:58am EDT

David Bendels, the Chief Editor of the AfD-adjacent Deutschland Kurier, has been threatened with prison time and sentenced to seven months of probation for an X meme. It is the harshest sentence ever handed down to a journalist for a speech crime in the Federal Republic of Germany. This is the illegal tweet, which Bendels […]

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