Weltschmerz à Gogo<p>Here's a complete translation of Maja T.'s statement about ending the hunger strike.</p><p>===</p><p>Maja’s Statement on Ending the Hunger Strike</p><p>14 July 2025</p><p>Dear fellow human beings, comrades, and supporters,</p><p>My name is Maja. I’ve been on hunger strike since 5 June. I started it as an act of protest against my illegal extradition from Germany (which still has not been rectified), the repressive persecution of antifascists, the prejudicial and dubious conduct of my case, the solitary confinement that continues to this day, and the inhuman conditions in Hungarian prisons. After almost six weeks, I have now decided to pause my hunger strike.</p><p>I don’t want to strain my health any further, and I feel that if I don’t reverse course now, soon it will be too late to do so. At that point, having my demands met would no longer be of much use. I would be scarred for life, if I’m not already. I never wanted things to go this far and naively hoped that a step as radical as a hunger strike would finally raise the awareness of the people responsible and everyone who might be able to change things. After a year of reassurances, smiles, and ignorance, I hoped that they would act.</p><p>There isn’t much left of me now. My body – a skeleton with an unbroken militant, living spirit. It smiles, looks for freedom and community on the horizon, and does not accept the idea that there is no justice. But I’m not ready to take a step close to death. No one knows, obviously. It could be a matter of days or maybe weeks. But if I were to lose consciousness, I would be incur a debt to the people fighting on my side, and I am not willing to burden anyone with that. The same would be true if I were subjected to coercive measures.</p><p>On 1 July, I was transferred to a prison hospital 250 miles from Budapest because even by that point there were serious concerns about the stability of my health. The new location is quieter than the prison in the city, but just as isolated. More so, in fact. Contact with my family is severely limited. My lawyer, who is always a vital pillar of support, has to take a whole day to visit me. I don’t encounter any other prisoners during my one hour of exercise in the yard. I spend the other 23 hours in my cell because there are no leisure opportunities here. The loneliness is tearing me to pieces; homesickness is always on the horizon. In medical terms, a body can be nursed back to health here, but mental recovery seems impossible to me in this place. With a transfer back to Budapest looming as if nothing had changed, the same situation that made the hunger strike necessary awaits me. Neither the hospital nor the prison can be a solution in Hungary.</p><p>My demands have not changed! I must be transferred back to Germany or placed under house arrest and given due process. I am determined not to be silent and to protest for as long as it takes to get that.</p><p>I am discontinuing the strike so that nobody has to be responsible for long-term or permanent health damage. But this move does not release anyone from responsibility to create humane prison conditions that are free of pain and torture for everyone; to conduct independent, constitutional trials that do not prejudge people; and to guarantee the integrity of imprisoned people, to respect their dignity rather than disparaging and punishing them. If that does not happen, if my demands continue to be ignored, I am determined to resume my hunger strike again.</p><p>I demand what I need: to be able to be at home with my family, to be able to have a fulfilling life through school, work, etc., to have an equal right to prepare for my trial and not remain buried alive in a cell. I am still waiting for a clear and honest statement, for an apology from the people who are responsible for my extradition, and for an offer of redress. For me, that is the most important thing, even if it is the last to come.</p><p>I thank everyone who has spoken up, who has aligned themselves with us, and those who have courageously been there for a long time; those who stand up for needed antifascism without being deterred; those who support, sacrifice night and day, who donate, and who are anchor points. That diversity is both resistance and utopia at the same time. My thoughts are always with my family and my closest comrades – in awareness of how much pain they are going through and admiration for how bravely and selflessly they are holding up. Today I can put my gratitude in words. But make no mistake, the seed of solidarity with what is possible lies in fertile soil. So I hope that it is not only me but many people who have been able to combine courage and strength of will in recent weeks to look forward, hand in hand, never forgiving, but smiling.</p><p>In solidarity. A Presto, mi farò vivo.</p><p>Maja</p><p>===</p><p>The original German text is here: <a href="https://www.basc.news/majas-erklaerung-zur-beendigung-des-hungerstreiks/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">basc.news/majas-erklaerung-zur</span><span class="invisible">-beendigung-des-hungerstreiks/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeMaja" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMaja</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BudapestKomplex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BudapestKomplex</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeThemAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeThemAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifascism</span></a></p>