Celle Higher Regional Court - In the name of the people Verdict

Although the defendant was still convinced of the health-promoting effects of the Falun Gong exercises, he increasingly rejected the ideological- religious superstructure and in particular the worship of the founder “Master L.” as a god and “creator of the universe” who had supernatural abilities own, from. [...] The defendant was also of the opinion that the supporters of the Falun Gong movement in C. [...] The beginning of the defendant's involvement in the intelligence services Due to this internal turning away from the movement, the defendant suffered even more from the fact that, as a well-known representative of the Falun Gong movement in Germany, he did not receive a visa for the People's Republic of C. [...] In this regard, the Federal Court of Justice has consistently established the requirement for an overall assessment, in which it must be examined in an evaluative manner, based on the normative purpose of Section 99 of the Criminal Code, whether the investigation of the person concerned runs counter to the interests of the Federal Republic, especially against the background of his or her own behav. [...] In contrast, only the number of offenses and the length of the offense period had a significant impact on the punishment, although these circumstances were put into perspective by the fact that the defendant assumed that he had developed a friendly relationship with his command officer and that there had actually been a decline in the violent persecution of the Falun Gong movement in C.