Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff (born 1971) is an Austrian counter-jihad activist. She was the applicant of the hate speech trial E.S. v. Austria, brought before the European Court of Human Rights. Before she became involved in the counter-jihad movement, she held positions at the Austrian embassies in Kuwait and Libya, and in the Austrian ministry of foreign affairs. Biography

Background
The daughter of an Austrian diplomat, she says her interest in Islam came after "having been exposed to Islam from early childhood" and being "confronted with life under the Sharia." She has links to the Wiener Akademikerbund and the Freedom Party of Austria, and manages the homepage of the Netzwerk Karl Martell blog. She is featured extensively on the counter-jihad blog Gates of Vienna, and has participated in several of the official international counter-jihad conferences. Hate speech case

In 2011 she was convicted by a Viennese court for "disparaging religious doctrines" after having described the Muslim Prophet Muhammad as a pedophile. She appealed the conviction to the European Court of Human Rights, which in 2018 ruled her speech to not be covered by freedom of speech, although she had made the assertion based on the Islamic texts describing Muhammad's consummation of his marriage with his 9-year-old wife Aisha when he was 54 years old. The remarks had been made in a small non-public seminar for the Freedom Party that was only picked up by an undercover journalist. According to Bruce Bawer, a search for mentions about the case on the internet, described by William Kilpatrick as a "pivotal event in modern European jurisprudence" that "placed the principles of sharia above the right to freedom of expression", failed to find a single mention of the original appeals verdict in any newspaper in the Western world. Other activities
In 2016 Sabaditsch-Wolff was knighted by the Knights of Malta, a Catholic order. She has been active in the Citizens' Movement Pax Europa, the International Civil Liberties Alliance, ACT for America, and has worked with Katie Hopkins. In this capacity she has been part of a delegation that has worked to "counter Islam" at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In 2010 she spoke in Israel alongside Geert Wilders at the invitation of former MK Eliezer Cohen, and in 2017 she was invited to meet with Kansas Secretary of State and Trump advisor Kris Kobach. She has been interviewed regarding her legal case by Jeanine Pirro. In 2019 she published her book The Truth is No Defense a part biography about her legal case. The book included "expert analyses" by Robert Spencer, Clare M. Lopez, Stephen Coughlin, Grégor Puppinck, Christian Zeitz, Henrik R. Clausen, Christine Brim and Aaron Rhodes. An updated and revised version of the book, titled Truth Was My Crime: A Life Fighting for Freedom was published in 2023. References

1971 births
Living people
Austrian expatriates
Counter-jihad activists
Austrian critics of Islam
Knights of Malta
People convicted of racial hatred offences