The Austrian Human Rights League has published a strong protest on behalf of general human rights against the Halsmann verdict, “because of numerous important and impartial personalities, including thousands of Aryans, who are convinced that Halsmann is not guilty, and secondly because the system of justice that enables such a terrible verdict is shocking to the entire population, particularly the attitude of the Supreme Court, because it did not consider the question of guilt itself, whereas a sense of justice in every right-thinking person longed for a repeal of the sentence by the highest tribunal. Free from any religious or partial orientations, the League is deeply shaken at the imposed martyrdom upon an apparently innocent person due to bad laws. If such cases are possible, then primary human rights are seriously endangered.”
The League appeals to all concerned to give Halsmann his freedom through a pardon and not to wait for a retrial.
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