The Case of Hüseyin Doğru: Germany Freezes Mother's Bank Account
The Berlin-based journalist has been under EU sanctions for over a year, accused of Russian disinformation. Yet his reporting was on Palestine.
Berlin-based journalist and German citizen Hüseyin Doğru has committed no crime, and yet he, then his wife — and now even his retired mother — have had their bank accounts frozen by German authorities. The family, which includes three young children, must subsist on approximately €506 per month. Doğru has said the situation has put them at acute risk of homelessness. This has persisted despite a Berlin court recently raising "serious doubts about the lawfulness" of the measures undertaken by the Central Sanctions Enforcement Office (ZfS), which subsequently unfroze his wife's account.
According to Doğru, none of the 38 pages of the classified evidence package against him even contains the word Russia.