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Malaysia charges opposition leader and former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin for allegedly insulting the former King Al-Sultan Abdullah in 2022, under the Sedition Act.
2024-08-27

Thai activist Arnon Nampa is sentenced to four years in prison for posting a royal insult on social media in 2021.
2024-01-17

The Federal Government of Germany officially recognizes the country's perpetration of the Herero and Namaqua genocide during its colonial rule of Namibia. German foreign minister Heiko Maas pledges reparations worth €1.1 billion (US$1.34 billion) for the descendants of the Herero and Nama people to be paid within 30 years.
2021-05-28

The Cabinet of Germany approves a third gender option for official identification records. The change will come into force by the end of the year.
2018-08-15

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, for the German caretaker government, decide to delay a decision on upgrading Turkey's German-built Leopard 2 tanks until after the formation of a new government coalition. Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu says Turkey expects "solidarity and support" from its ally.
2018-01-25

The CDU-CSU (Christian Democrats) and SPD (Social Democrats) agree on a blueprint for formal negotiations on a new "grand coalition" government after the September 2017 federal election.
2018-01-12

The Social Democratic Party congress votes to start talks on "whether and in what form" to support a new federal government.
2017-12-7

German prosecutors drop a case against comedian Jan Böhmermann, who had been indicted for a satirical poem about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2016-10-4

During a rally in support of German comedian Jan Böhmermann, outside the Turkish embassy in Berlin, Bruno Kramm, head of the Berlin branch of Germany's Pirate Party, is arrested for “insulting a representative of a foreign state” by quoting a line from the comic’s satirical poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2016-04-23

The Cabinet of Germany accepts a project on Leistungsschutzrecht; they feel it at its third attempt as now ready to send to the Bundestag for voting into law.
2012-08-30