Hungary court cuts sentence for non-binary German by a year

A Hungarian appeals court has cut by one year the prison sentence of Maja Trux — a non-binary German national convicted over an antifascist attack on participants of a neo-Nazi march in Budapest on February 11, 2023. The ruling was reported by the news portal index.hu.

The neo-Nazis were marking the so-called “Day of Honour” that day — the anniversary of a failed 1945 attempt by German and Hungarian soldiers to break out of Budapest while it was encircled by the Red Army. Antifascists deliberately targeted part of the march, and some of those attacked suffered serious injuries.

The appeals judge explained that the sentence was reduced because, on one of the two counts, Trux was found to have acted not as a direct co-perpetrator but as an accomplice, and was no longer considered a member of an organized criminal group. On the other count, however, the court upheld the conviction for causing grievous bodily harm.

The court also allowed Trux to serve the sentence in another European Union member state — the convicted person said she would make use of that option.

In 2025, Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled that Trux’s extradition to Hungary had been unlawful. The judges noted that as a non-binary person, Trux risks facing discrimination in Hungary, since the country legally recognizes only two genders — male and female.

Around Prague, based on reporting by novinky.cz