Post #4087109
2026-07-25 11:40 UTC
Daniel and their co-defendants (the Ulm 5) are separated from their legal teams by a wall of bulletproof glass and they cannot communicate effectively. They have to use microphones, which seem to cut out frequently, or speak through a grill in the wall. And they must juggle listening to the lawyers, the judge, and translators simultaneously.
Every day in court, the 5 request that they be allowed sit with their lawyers and every day, the judge denies their requests.
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@BenRiceM@mastodon.social 2026-07-25 11:40
They request access to phone calls while in prison, and are denied. They ask for handcuffs to be removed while in transit in police vehicles (and their ankles remain cuffed), for some of them up to three hours from their respective prisons to the court, and are denied. They ask for an independent stenographer and a courtroom sketch artist, and are denied.
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@canleaf@mastodon.social 2026-07-25 16:47
@BenRiceM@mastodon.social is this Pukin's Russia now? What have we become in Germany?