Hungary Appeals Court Reduces Sentence for German Non-Binary Defendant Maja T. to 7 Years

A Budapest appeals court reduced the prison sentence for Maja T., a non-binary German person from Jena, from 8 to 7 years on September 30, 2026. The court reclassified the charges from joint perpetration to aiding and abetting. The ruling is final and cannot be further appealed.

Maja T. was convicted in first instance in February 2026 for serious physical attacks on alleged far-right extremists during the "Day of Honor" event in Budapest in February 2023 — a gathering traditionally organized by far-right groups. The prosecution had sought to increase the sentence to at least 13 years; the defense sought acquittal. Members of a connected German antifa group have also been convicted in Germany.

Background and German Legal Dispute

Maja T. was arrested in Berlin in December 2023 and extradited to Hungary in June 2024. Germany's Federal Constitutional Court subsequently ruled the extradition was unlawful, finding the responsible court had not sufficiently examined Maja T.'s detention conditions as a non-binary person. Time already served in pre-trial detention counts toward the sentence. Maja T.'s father Wolfram Jarosch was present in court for the ruling.