Beugehaft gegen an Leukämie erkranktes ehemaliges RAF-Mitglied

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Beugehaft gegen an Leukämie erkranktes ehemaliges RAF-Mitglied 

Am 1.12.2011 hat das Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Stuttgart eine sechsmonatige Beugehaft gegen das frühere RAF-Mitglied Christa Eckes angeordnet, die lebensbedrohend erkrankt ist.

 

Die Zwangsmaßnahme steht im Zusammenhang mit einer verweigerten Aussage im Prozess gegen Verena Becker. Wie zahlreiche andere Zeugen aus der RAF hatte Frau Eckes sich auf ein umfassendes Auskunftsverweigerungsrecht berufen. Allen anderen Zeugen war dieses Recht zugestanden worden. Denn nach der Strafprozessordnung muss sich niemand der Gefahr einer neuen Strafverfolgung aussetzen. So hat der Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) mehrmals in den letzten Jahren entschieden.

Das Stuttgarter Gericht will offensichtlich aber gerade in diesem Fall mit der Beugehaft eine Aussage erzwingen.

 

Ein Vollzug dieser angedrohten Haft bringt Christa Eckes in Lebensgefahr. Sie ist an akuter lymphatischer Leukämie erkrankt und befindet sich seit Anfang September in stationärer Behandlung Dort finden Chemotherapie und weitere ärztliche Maßnahmen statt. Weder die Behandlungsdauer, noch ein positiver Behandlungsverlauf, sind zur Zeit absehbar.

Bei einem zwangsweisen Gefängnisaufenthalt wäre eine Fortsetzung der lebenserhaltenden Therapie nicht mehr möglich. Es gäbe keinen Zugang mehr zu Vertrauensärzten mit onkologischer Qualifikation, eine engmaschige Gesundheitskontrolle wäre ebenso nicht mehr gegeben wie ein notwendiger Standard zur Vorbeugung gegen Infektionen. Dazu kämen nachvollziehbare schwerwiegende psychische Belastungen.

 

Dem OLG Stuttgart liegt seit September ein entsprechendes Attest vor. Trotzdem setzte das OLG für den 23.11. einen Vernehmungstermin im Krankenhaus an, der während einer laufenden Chemo-Infusion im Aufenthaltsraum der Station stattfand. Eine Woche später wurde der Beschluss zur Beugehaft dann als Fax an die Station geschickt, wo er zwei Tage offen und für das Personal einsehbar auslag.

 

Am 6. Dezember erfolgte eine „Ladung zum Beugehaftantritt“ binnen zwei Wochen in das Gefängniskrankenhaus Hohenasperg, das keinerlei medizinischen Standard für die Behandlung einer solchen schweren Erkrankung aufweist. Ein Vorführungs- oder Haftbefehl ist angedroht. Dabei hatte das Oberlandesgericht in seinem Beschluss noch festgestellt, die Haftfähigkeit sei zu prüfen und am 6.12.11 eine ärztliche Stellungnahme angefordert. Diese wurde dann aber gar nicht abgewartet.

 

Gegen den Beugehaft-Beschluss ist eine Beschwerde zum BGH erhoben worden. Auch sind juristische Schritte gegen den Haftvollzug eingeleitet.  Darüber hinaus sind politische und humanitäre Interventionen dringend geboten.

Kontakt: Rechtsanwalt Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Schneider / Tel. 040-8513116 / Rechtsanwalt-Schneider@gmx.de

 

 

„white feminists: its time to put up or shut up on race“

gefunden auf: radically queer

Listen up, white feminists.

We have a problem.  I’m including myself because none of us are immune from this problem.  We all fuck up.  And you can say “fucking up is natural,” and that’s true, but it’s time for us to start identifying our fuck ups, and not just learning from them, but acknowledging the hurt they cause other people.

We need to acknowledge that we cannot know what it’s like to be an oppressed racial minority.  Cannot.  The end.  Period.  We don’t know because we’re queer, because we’re disabled, because we’re Jewish, because we were the nerdy kid in school.  These things may have hurt us severely, but we need to stop playing Oppression Olympics and acknowledge that when we’re talking about race we Do.  Not.  Know.  No more metaphors.

 

We need to accept that when a person of color tells us we’ve fucked up, the answer is not to get defensive.  When we get that instinct to say “geez, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it that way atall,” it’s time to stop right now.  It doesn’t matter how you meant it.  It really doesn’t.  Someone doesn’t have to have racism in their heart to do something racist.  And doing something racist doesn’t make you an evil person who can never do good again, should never be an activist, should run off and hide in a hole somewhere.  It means you did something hurtful, you made a big mistake, and you need to own that mistake.  You need to say “I’m sorry.”  Full stop.  I’m sorry.  And if the person who called you out is generous enough to take time to explain what you did wrong, you need to have a seat and listen.

I’ve fucked this up plenty of times in my own life.  I’ve used social justice as a shield, to show how liberal and progressive I am.  I couldn’t possibly be a racist, right?

It doesn’t matter.  It really doesn’t matter, because all of us who couldn’t possibly be racist are doing racist things, and we need to cut it out.

We need to acknowledge that being a POC is not the only identity someone has.  POC disagree with each other, and there’s not always one big Anti-Racist Answer.  Maybe that’s hard to sort through.  Well, life is hard.  It’s not our job, as white people, to show up with “the answer.”  Again, have a seat.

We need to acknowledge that a WOC balances the identities of “woman” and “of color,” along with many other identities.  It is never okay to tell someone to set aside race while we focus on gender or feminism for a while.  Gender is informed by race.  Feminism had better fucking include anti-racism or this ship is sunk, let’s all go home.  By the way, this isn’t always blatant and obvious.  It happens when a POC raises what seems like a minor point in the language of a document, and a white leader in the group says you know, we’re really voting on the main resolution right now.  It happens when a group of mostly white feminists suggests that one of their POC members be in charge of “dealing” with a race issue.  Don’t tolerate this bullshit.

We need to acknowledge that any movement must address the needs of its most marginalized members, or any cries of elitism are absolutely true.  We need to go beyond token efforts to include POC, working class people, disabled people, immigrants, and others in our feminist movements, and when we bring marginalized voices to the table, we need to listen.  We need to accept that maybe the thing we’ve been fighting for our whole lives isn’t as important as another thing that is hurting someone else.  We need to pay attention to books written by marginalized people that aren’t part of the “canon,” and listen to their priorities.  We need to focus on prison reform, on violence against transgender sex workers of color, on what’s happening in immigration detention facilities, on the continued genocide against indigenous people in the US and all over the world.

I believe that feminism is viable, and will kick some serious ass if we stop being idiots about race and other issues.  I’m launching QueerFeminism.com at the start of 2012 to focus on how to rescue this movement and redefine feminism as “radical opposition to patriarchy,” a definition that explicitly incorporates the horrors of racism and colonization.  I hope some of you will join me in that effort.

In the meantime, if you do nothing else today, white feminists, read this article by Flavia Dzodan: My Feminism Will Be Intersectional or It Will Be Bullshit.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good [‚white‘] Ally

gefunden auf: The Black Angry Woman

1. Don’t derail a discussion. Even if it makes you personally uncomfortable to discuss X issue…it’s really not about you or your comfort. It’s about X issue, and you are absolutely free to not engage rather than try to keep other people from continuing their conversation.

2. Do read links/books referenced in discussions. Again, even if the things being said make you uncomfortable, part of being a good ally is not looking for someone to provide a 101 class midstream. Do your own heavy lifting.

3. Don’t expect your feelings to be a priority in a discussion about X issue. Oftentimes people get off onto the tone argument because their feelings are hurt by the way a message was delivered. If you stand on someone’s foot and they tell you to get off? The correct response is not “Ask nicely” when you were in the wrong in the first place.

4. Do shut up and listen. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of listening to the people actually living X experience. There is nothing more obnoxious than someone (however well intentioned) coming into the spaces of a marginalized group and insisting that they absolutely have the solution even though they’ve never had X experience. You can certainly make suggestions, but don’t be surprised if those ideas aren’t well received because you’ve got the wrong end of the stick somewhere.

5. Don’t play Oppresion Olympics. Really, if you’re in the middle of a conversation about racism? Now is not the time to talk about how hard it is to be a white woman and deal with sexism. Being oppressed in one area does not mean you have no privilege in another area. Terms like intersectionality and kyriarchy exist for a reason. Also…that’s derailing. Stop it.

6. Do check your privilege. It’s hard and often unpleasant, but it’s really necessary. And you’re going to get things wrong. Because no one is perfect. But part of being an ally is being willing to hear that you’re doing it wrong.

7. Don’t expect a pass into safe spaces because you call yourself an ally. You’re not entitled to access as a result of not being an asshole. Sometimes it just isn’t going to be about you or what you think you should happen. Your privilege didn’t fall away when you became an ally, and there are intra-community conversations that need to take place away from the gaze of the privileged.

8. Do be willing to stand up to bigots. Even if all you do is tell a friend that the thing they just said about X marginalized group is unacceptable, you’re doing some of the actual work of being an ally.

9. Don’t treat people like accessories or game tokens. Really, you get no cool points for having a diverse group of friends. Especially when you try to use that as license to act like an asshole.

10. Do keep trying. Fighting bigotry is a war, not a battle and it’s generational. So, keep your goals realistic, your spirits up (taking a break to recoup emotional, financial, physical reserves is a-okay), and your heart in the right place. Eventually we’ll get it right.