Liebich (in background, standing on van) protesting in Halle in 2019 Hendrik Schmidt

A fierce debate has erupted in Germany around a neo-Nazi who is set to begin a jail term in a women's prison on Friday after legally changing gender.

Marla-Svenja Liebich, 54, has been sentenced to 18 months at the Chemnitz prison for offences in

At the time of sentencing in 2023, the defendant was called Sven Liebich but legally changed gender after Germany last year passed an identity law called the Self-Determination Act.

The move by Liebich, who started wearing lipstick, golden earrings and a leopard print top, was widely seen as intended to mock the law and perhaps obtain easier prison conditions.

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said that "the judiciary, the public and politicians are bein

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