A German neo-Nazi provocateur who was slated to be sent to a women's prison after having a legal gender change will instead be incarcerated with men, local authorities said on Thursday.
Marla-Svenja Liebich -- who used to go by the name of Sven before registering a new identity as a woman -- has been accused of exploiting German laws on gender self-identification.
Liebich, who fled Germany after being convicted on charges including incitement to racial hatred and slander, had been extradited on Wednesday from the Czech Republic to a women's prison in the eastern German city of Chemnitz.
However, the facility's management ultimately decided Liebich would serve the sentence in a men's correctional facility, said a spokesman for the justice ministry in the eastern German state of Saxony.
Saxony's justice minister, Constanze Geiert, praised the decision.
