Blocking of video calls by the prison management after publication of the video address to the Bundestag
On 17.07.2026 at 11:30 I was summoned to a meeting by the head of the unit, Mr Hausleiter Lohmeier (MTAL). Two social workers from the prison (JVA) also attended, namely Ms Mahlow and another social worker whose name I do not know.
Mr MTAL Lohmeier told me that an inquiry had been initiated in connection with my published video address to members of the German Bundestag and that he had ordered my ability to make video calls to be blocked for three months. I received no answer to my question about the legal basis for that decision.
I was then given an opportunity to comment. I stated that I had violated no statutory provision and that the rules protecting personal data were not applicable here either. I insisted on being given a written decision, which I will publish immediately and challenge legally. Not a single word was said during the meeting about the substance of my video address, namely the allegations it made against the judge concerned and the Berlin justice system.
After returning to my cell, I found that my access to video calls had in fact been blocked.
Commentary — Dmitry Bagrash’s assessment
This sanction occurred immediately in temporal connection with publication of my public statement against Judge Groß and Senior Public Prosecutor Wachs (Oberstaatsanwalt; OStA), without a legal basis being identified to me or a written decision open to challenge being given to me. It forms part of the already documented pattern of isolation from the press and the public.
Source of the document
Annex 146_F2: Google Drive