Enough is enough! Thus far and no further!

With its most recent sanctions package, the EU has placed the military historian and former colonel of the Swiss Army and the Swiss Strategic Intelligence Service, as well as member of the Swiss General Staff, Jacques Baud, under sanctions. Jacques Baud is a Swiss citizen and lives in Brussels. He is no longer allowed to leave Belgium, his assets have been seized, his accounts have been frozen, and his books may no longer be sold.
    Jacques Baud has worked, among other things, for NATO and the United Nations. He is an impeccable scholar and an honorable man. His books meet the highest standards of professional historical analysis. He works strictly neutrally according to the principle: Both sides must be heard.
    It is not a crime to name the true reasons for the Ukraine war. It is not a crime to draw readers’ attention to untruths and to the EU’s and NATO’s own propaganda. It is not a crime to point out the thoughtless cooperation of the West with Ukrainian forces that show a dangerous proximity to fascists.
    The Council of the European Union is destroying the foundations of freedom of opinion through arbitrary punitive measures against Jacques Baud and in total against 59 journalists and scholars.
    These sanctions are illegal and contrary to international law, because they were not imposed by the UN Security Council. The legal opinion by former judge at the European Court of Justice Prof. Dr Ninon Colneric and the legal scholar Prof. Dr Alina Miron of the University of Angers shows that the underlying legal acts also violate EU law. The EU is using the sanctions list as an instrument to silence critics and is maneuvering itself ever deeper into an abyss of lawlessness.
    We call on the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the German Bundestag, the German state and local parliaments, the entire German people, and the people in all countries of the European Union to now oppose with all their might those who are destroying democracy and those who are driving the war.
    The preamble of the Basic Law obliges Germany to serve peace. Article 5 of the Basic Law states: “There shall be no censorship.” The actions of the EU Commission and the EU Council contradict our Basic Law. We call on the Federal Government, in accordance with its oath of office, to point out this unlawful proceeding.
    We demand the immediate lifting of the illegal sanctions against Jacques Baud as well as against all journalists, scholars, and EU citizens.
    We demand that the Federal Government and the EU contribute constructively to peace in Ukraine and cease all attempts that are contrary to the constitution to prolong the war!

First signatory:

Prof. Dr Nima Rostami Alkhorshid, civil engineer, University of Brasilia; Dr Michael Andrick, philosopher and writer; Patrik Baab, publicist and political scientist; Volker Braun, writer; Max Blumenthal, journalist and documentary filmmaker, USA; Lieutenant Colonel ret. lic. phil. Ralph Bosshard, military historian; Prof. em. Dr Joseph O. Boyd-Barrett, Professor Emeritus at California State University, Channel Islands, USA; Prof. Dr Peter Brandt, historian and publicist; Michael Brie, philosopher, member of the Executive Board of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation; James W. Carden, journalist and author, former advisor to the Special Representative for Intergovernmental Affairs at the US State Department, USA; Prof. Dr Michael Jabara Carley, History Department, University of Montreal, Canada; Sevim Dagdelen, publicist, Federal Executive Committee of the BSW; Daniela Dahn, writer; Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Daniel Davis, recipient of the Bronze Star for bravery in Iraq and for service in Afghanistan, USA; Dieter Dehm, writer and songwriter; Prof. Dr Glenn Diesen, political scientist at the University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway; Tino Eisbrenner, musician and writer; Thomas Fazi, author, Italy; Ruth Firmenich, MEP, political scientist; Dr. Heiner Flassbeck, economist, former State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance and former Chief Economist of UNCTAD; Justus Frantz, conductor, founder of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival; Prof. Dr Hajo Funke, Free University of Berlin; George Galloway, Chairman of the Workers Party of Britain, United Kingdom; Dr Daniele Ganser, historian and publicist, Switzerland; Prof. Dr Ulrike Guérot, political scientist and publicist; Gabriele Gysi, writer and director; Marie-Christine Giuliani, National Councillor, Austria; Christoph Hein, writer; Dr Hannes Hofbauer, historian, publicist, publisher; Prof. Dr Stefan Homburg, Public Finance, Leibniz University Hannover; Andrej Hunko, Honorary Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst and publicist, USA; Markus J. Karsten, publisher, Westend-Verlag; Alexander King, member of the Berlin House of Representatives (BSW); Prof. Dr Dieter Klein, economics, Humboldt University (retired); Patrik Köbele, chairman of the DKP; Roger Köppel, publisher and editor-in-chief of Die Weltwoche; Markus Kompa, media lawyer; Prof. Dr Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, journalist and university lecturer; Major General (ret.) Dennis Laich, US Army; Dr Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Programme at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Washington D.C., USA; Andrew Lowenthal, founder and CEO of liber-net, Australia; Prof. Dr Pascal Lottaz, professor at Kyoto University, Japan; Marcel Luthe, chairman of the Good Governance Union; Dr Hans-Georg Maassen, former president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution; Aaron Maté, journalist, Canada; Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, retired CIA analyst, USA; Prof. Dr John J. Mearsheimer, political scientist, University of Chicago, USA; Peter Mertens, Secretary General of the Partij van de Arbeid (PVDA), Member of the Chamber of Representatives, Belgium; Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Peter Misch, publisher; Albrecht Müller, founder and editor of NachDenkSeiten; Haralampi G. Oroschakoff, visual artist and writer; Prof. Dr Max Otte, economist; Dirk Pohlmann, journalist and filmmaker; Prof. Dr Nikolai Petro, political scientist at the University of Rhode Island, USA; Didier Pfirter, retired ambassador, representative of Switzerland at the founding of the International Criminal Court and former advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Switzerland; Prof. Dr Theodore A. Postol, Emeritus Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Milena Preradovic, journalist, Austria; Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector and military expert, USA; Prof. Dr Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, United Kingdom; Michael von der Schulenburg, MEP, former UN and OSCE diplomat; Vice Admiral (ret.) Kay-Achim Schönbach, Deputy Chair of Bündnis Deutschland; Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange and founder of The Information Rights Project, Australia; Lord Robert Skidelsky, historian, House of Lords, United Kingdom; Prof. Dr Wolfgang Streeck, Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne; Prof. Dr Ola Tunander, Research Director Emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway; Raymond Unger, writer and visual artist; Ron Unger, retired soldier of the US Marine Corps, member of Veterans for Peace, USA; Prof. Dr mult. Dr h. c. mult. László Ungvári, managing director of Development in Relations of Industrial and Education Management GmbH; Aya Velazquez, freelance journalist; Alexander Wallasch, writer and journalist; Roger Waters, musician, United Kingdom; Dr phil. Dieter Weber, retired diplomat and historian; Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, musician and author; retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, USA; Laura von Wimmersperg, Berlin Peace Coordination; Achim Winter, journalist and satirist; Flavio von Witzleben, journalist.

Source: https://free-baud.org/en/; Here you can see the other signatories; anyone can sign the appeal; so far, over 20,000 people have signed it.