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The GFF supports two former members of the Leipzig Integration Advisory Council who had to give up their seats due to a questionable legal change in the Advisory Council's rules. According to the new regulations, only persons with a "secured right of residence" can become members of the Advisory Cou

The GFF and the Austrian NGO epicenter.works - Platform Fundamental Rights Policy are taking joint action against the mass storage and non-transparent processing of air passenger data. We are taking legal action in German and Austrian courts against the so-called PNR Directive. Following a prelimina

On March 14, 2019, the Federal Constitutional Court found that the Rhineland-Palatinate Regional Social Court had violated fundamental rights in summary proceedings concerning the assessment of the benefit entitlements of a person with disabilities. Subsequently, the Regional Social Court correcte

The cooperation agreements of the University of Mainz with the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation from 2009 and 2012 violated the fundamental right of academic freedom. The university ought not to have entered into the relevant cooperation agreements. Agreements in the case under review, as well as in

GFF obtains acquittal of peace activist Hermann Theisen The GFF successfully appealed against the conviction of a peace activist. Hermann Theisen had called on employees of arms manufacturers to expose any illegal practices of the companies. The companies pressed charges against him and he was conv

The GFF supported a successful emergency motion against an overly broad ban on "dangerous" tools and warrantless mass searches. The GFF in cooperation with the Humanist Union (HU) supported appeals by five individuals against an order issued by the Federal Police Headquarters in Berlin, as well as

GFF, with the support of the Chaos Computer Club Stuttgart e.V. (CCCS), filed a constitutional complaint against the Baden-Württemberg police law. The complaint is directed against the amendment to the law of November 28, 2017, which allows the police in Baden-Württemberg to monitor the electronic

In 2015, environmental activist Cécile Lecomte learned of her classification as a "relevant person" by the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA) in the course of legal proceedings. The classification enables the authorities to carry out surveillance measures that deeply interfere with the

GFF files constitutional complaint challenging the automated retrieval of biometric photographs The GFF filed a constitutional complaint challenging the authority of various governmental security agencies and intelligence services to automatically retrieve biometric passport photographs even in the