Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained (in a psychiatric institution) for opposition Archived Message Posted by Rich on April 25, 2020, 5:00 pm Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained for opposition by Alex Thomson, Eastern Approaches Tuesday, 14th April 2020 A large number of well-established doctors and lawyers in the German-speaking countries have questioned the constitutionality of their governments' stringent confinement measures, which are commonly being referred to by the English loan-word der Shutdown (as there is no precedent for what to call the situation in German). These measures have begun to be challenged openly on the streets of Berlin. The medical and legal dissidents number in the dozens. None, however, has paid such a price for that freedom of speech as the German medical lawyer Beate Bahner, who has been committed to a psychiatric institution for publicly disagreeing with the measures and policies followed by the German government. No right to demonstrate Beate Bahner, in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg, has a 25-year career and has won three cases before the Federal Constitutional Court (German Supreme Court) in the domain of unlawful infringements of the right to practise one's profession. She has written five books on medical law, most recently an analysis of the 2016 federal act to tackle corruption in the healthcare system. On Friday 3 April 2020, Ms Bahner issued a press release decrying the German government's Coronavirus measures as "flagrantly unconstitutional, infringing to an unprecedented extent many of the fundamental rights of German citizens". The statement argued that the small minority of the public that was at risk of serious harm in the event of contracting Covid–19 could be far more suitably protected by means of targeted measures based on the principle of adult responsibility for safeguarding one's own health. She continued: https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/coronavirus-lockdown-german-lawyer-detained-opposition Message Thread: Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained (in a psychiatric institution) for opposition - Rich April 25, 2020, 5:00 pm From what I make out... - Ken Waldron April 25, 2020, 8:34 pm Locking opponents up in psychiatric institutions was NEVER "an old Soviet technique". - Der April 26, 2020, 12:18 am Re: Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained (in a psychiatric institution) for opposition - walter April 26, 2020, 1:19 am Re: Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained (in a psychiatric institution) for opposition - Ken Waldron April 26, 2020, 11:29 am Also worth noting that the UK coronavirus bill means only one doctor is now reqd to section someone - flash April 26, 2020, 6:52 am More "conspiracist" nonsense. It never stops. It seems obvious the woman had a psychotic episode and - Der April 26, 2020, 8:26 am Trusting soul Der :) - walter April 27, 2020, 12:43 am   Searching