Telepolis

8 January 2003: Trial of a pacifist from Münster at the Münster District Court. Accusation: ‘approval of murder’. In June 2002, Telepolis, the ‘Magazine for Web Culture’, published a satirical article about a war massacre in Mazar i Sharif, Afghanistan. The computer crime unit, district attorney and district court are engaged in the case for months. Investigations are carried out in five states. The trial ends with a verdict of ‘not guilty’.