{"id":251372,"date":"2023-04-05T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=251372"},"modified":"2023-04-05T17:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:26:12","slug":"political-prisoner-corona-protest-movement-founder-michael-ballweg-released-after-9-months-detainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=251372","title":{"rendered":"Political Prisoner? Corona Protest Movement Founder Michael Ballweg Released After 9 Months Detainment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTricksZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/em>4. April 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dark times for political opponents, skeptics of dubious science.\u00a0<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governments weaponizing the justice authorities to go after political opponents and protest movement leaders seems to have become vogue nowadays in the once democratic western hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victims of the tactic often face dubious charges, some even having to spend months in detention as authorities drag their feet carrying out the \u201clegal\u201d process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>German Corona lockdown protest leader Michael Ballweg (left) released from the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison after 9 months detention on dubious charges. Image cropped from\u00a0AUF 1 here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, in Germany a number of physicians have been charged and even jailed for allegedly issuing \u201cfalse mask exemptions\u201d or \u201cfalse vaccination exemption\u201d certificates to patients who fear the experimental, shoddily launched COVID vaccine. Critics accuse the authorities of using these heavy handed tactics to intimidate legitimate political opponents into silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ballweg released after 9 months of detention<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One high profile example in Germany is Michael Ballweg<\/strong>, the founder of the Corona restrictions protest movement dubbed \u201cQuerdenken<\/a>\u201d (unorthodox thinking). Today we know that the \u201cquerdenkers\u201d were right about a lot of things, and huge amounts of damage could have been avoided had their warnings been taken seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But instead, the government and media got paranoid and scared of the Ballweg\u2019s protest movement. The media characterized the movement as fringe right wingers who threatened \u201cour democracy\u201d. Last June, Ballweg was arrested and dragged to jail on dubious charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, after more than 9 months detention, he was finally allowed to leave Stuttgart-Stammheim prison. The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court on Tuesday lifted the arrest warrant in exchange for a condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ballweg had been in pre-trial detention since June 2022 on suspicion<\/strong> of money laundering and fraud. Suspicion is all that\u2019s needed nowadays to arrest unwanted voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUF 1 here reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Previously, several appeals against Ballweg\u2019s pre-trial detention had come to nothing. As part of the nine-month trial, he can now leave prison. The reason for the revocation of the arrest warrant was proportionality. The expected punishment in case of a conviction was too small to justify a longer pre-trial detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ballweg\u2019s lawyer Dr. Alexander Christ commented on the decision: \u201cI am happy for my client!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allegations reduced, allegations dropped<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the allegations were significantly reduced: for example, parts of the money laundering allegations against Ballweg were dropped. Most recently, Ballweg had only been accused of attempted <\/strong>fraud.<\/strong> The prosecution worked with the daring legal construct of an \u201cunsuccessful attempt\u201d. Nobody had ever been harmed by Ballweg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawyer Dr. Alexander Christ from Ballweg\u2019s legal team appeared in an interview with Austria\u2019s AUF1 last week and reported numerous inconsistencies in the 120-page indictment. For example, money laundering allegations that had already been dropped resurfaced in the indictment. \u201cA tale,\u201d summarized Dr. Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The release of Ballweg is certainly good news. But leading a protest and\u00a0speaking up against the government still remains dangerously risky today<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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