Hanna Seidel was 13 years old when she was upskirted by a teacher from another school during a school trip. When she was 16, she was upskirted a second time at a festival.
"I still remember the incident at 16 very well," says Seidel, who's now 28. "The perpetrator denied it first and then threatened me and called me a slut."
Bystanders intervened to keep the man away from Seidel. But when she tried to get help from the authorities, it was a different story entirely. "The police didn't want to help me with the upskirting case back then — now I know why," she says.
What Seidel has since learned is that upskirt photography isn't legally considered a sexual offence under German law. But, she and her fellow campaigner Ida Sassenberg are determined to change that. Read more...
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