Naomi Seibt, a prominent right-wing influencer from Germany, has announced she is requesting asylum in the US over political persecution in her home country.
Seibt – who has been living in the US since 2024 – wrote on X yesterday: “As a free speech advocate and supporter of the AfD [Alternative for Germany] party, I am the target of intelligent surveillance, State media defamation, [and] Antifa threats.
“The German Government is supporting left-wing violence, covering up migrant crimes and silencing dissidents with mass house raids.”
Seibt said she was the first German to apply for asylum under US President Donald Trump’s current reign.
In her post, she also claimed that Germany’s public broadcasters were defaming the Trump administration as well as recently assassinated Conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
In a video, Seibt said her communications had been monitored and that her family had been “stalked by reporters for the state media”.
She recounted how she had allegedly received death threats from left-wing group Antifa and how the police had told her they could not help her as “no physical harm had occurred yet”.
Seibt added: “President Trump has correctly identified Antifa as a terrorist organisation but meanwhile the German Government silently condones these attacks on their own citizens.
“While Europe is becoming a breeding ground for tyranny, America still treats the right to free speech as sacred – and thank god for that!”
She also referred to the infamous Article 188 of the German Criminal Code that bans the insult of politicians under threat of heavy fines, including imprisonment of up to five years.
This regulation has served as the basis for many cases against ordinary citizens who had spoken ill of – predominantly left-wing – politicians online in the past years.
The most prominent incident included a police raid on the house of a pensioner and his handicapped daughter in November last year after the man had shared a meme online insinuating that Greens party politician Robert Habeck, then Germany’s Vice Chancellor, was a “moron”.
In February 2025, a CBD documentary shot during a “day of action against hate crime online” showed a US audience how German authorities were cracking down on freedom of opinion online, causing shock worldwide.
The 25-year-old Seibt is one of the most prominent right-wing German activists. She has almost 450,000 followers on X and 110,000 subscribers on YouTube. For many US citizens, she is instrumental in forming their picture of Germany.
She first rose to prominence in 2019 as a sceptic of feminism and climate-change narratives – which earned her the moniker of “Anti-Greta” [Thunberg].
In 2024, X owner Elon Musk repeatedly shared her posts, greatly increasing her reach online.
