Ten months into his detention, Irishman Daniel Tatlow-Devally and his fellow pro Palestine activists have spent 22 hours a day alone in a German cell. Tatlow-Devally, along with UK nationals Zo Hailu and Crow Tricks are on trial for allegedly causing €1million (£860,00) of damage at Israel’s Elbit Systems in Ulm and using symbols of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation in Germany. They are further charged with membership of a criminal organisation under section 129 of the German criminal code.

Germany is not some outlaw state whose courts require Irish parliamentary supervision to function

Germany is not some outlaw state whose courts require Irish parliamentary supervision to function

This week, a cross-party delegation of Irish politicians travelled to Stuttgart to see for themselves what that detention, and the trial behind it, looks like. What they found troubled them enough to call it a show trial. They described a courtroom stripped of dignity, with Tatlow-Devally’s father accusing the German judicial system of treating his son like Hannibal Lecter.

Tatlow-Devally, who comes from a privileged background in Dublin, is a 32-year-old student living in Germany for the past five years. He is not, as his father described him and the other activists on Irish TV ‘a kid.’ Friends of the Tatlow-Devally family set up a GoFundMe to help with travel and accommodation during the trial, with any excess donated to the Irish Palestine Solidarity Group and........

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