🔶 A neo-Nazi who says she is a woman was transferred to a men’s prison

Her name is “Marlа Svenija Libisch”; her first name is feminine, but her appearance suggests something else.

In 2023, when she still considered herself a man and her name was “Sven,” a court in the city of Halle in eastern Germany sentenced her to a year and a half in prison for “incitement of hatred against social groups.”

The sentence was due to be carried out as of last August, but she fled to the Czech Republic and was arrested there in April this year.

Meanwhile, this far-right activist, in 2025 (last calendar year), officially requested a gender change in the official records and changed her name to “Marla Svenija.”

For this reason, when on Wednesday, July 15 (July 24 in the Iranian calendar), she was transferred from the Czech Republic to Germany to serve her sentence, she was sent to a women’s prison in Chemnitz.

But on the same day, after checks were carried out, this prisoner was transferred to a men’s prison. It was also announced that the decision was made to ensure the safety of women prisoners in Chemnitz.

Defending the decision, the Saxony state minister of justice said: “It’s good that the prison clarified the situation quickly and didn’t give in to these staging efforts.”

The request to change her name and gender was submitted by the defendant under a self-determination law.

This law, which has been in effect in Germany for about a year, concerns gender and name in official documents and allows people to determine their own gender, not necessarily based on the gender they were born with.

However, according to critics, Libisch has taken advantage of this law.

At present, the local court in Halle must decide whether the change of name and gender can be revoked or not.

Local justice authorities said that in December of last year, they carried out the necessary legal steps to correct the registry of the changed name and gender.

At present, Libisch is recorded as a woman in documents and records, and for that reason, after her arrest in the Czech Republic, she was transferred to the nearest women’s prison in the area where she was arrested.

There, she said that she did not want to be transferred to Germany because she was afraid she would be killed in a men’s prison in Germany. But the Czech court ultimately ruled in favor of her being transferred to Germany.

Sven Libisch—today known by the name Marla Svenija Libisch—was born in 1970 in Merseburg, in the Halle region in eastern Germany.

This neo-Nazi has been organizing demonstrations regularly in Halle, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, at the city’s marketplace square since 2014.

In most cases, these rallies ended in clashes and fighting against opponents of this group, and in several instances Libisch was found guilty by the court.

Ultimately, the Halle public prosecutor’s office found Libisch guilty on six counts and sentenced her to a year and a half in prison. However, she fled to the Czech Republic until she was finally arrested and transferred to Germany.