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Alexandra Béni Alexandra Béni · 11/07/2018
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Youth organisations condemn imprisonment of ethnic Hungarians in Romania

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The #youth organisations believe that #Romania is "playing the #Hungarian card to divert attention from the chaotic state of Romania's #internal #affairs"

Youth organisations in Hungary and beyond the borders on Tuesday condemned the Romanian Supreme Court’s verdict sentencing two Transylvanian Hungarians to prison for what it called an attempted bomb attack in Targu Secuiesc (Kézdivásárhely) in 2015.

István Beke, local leader of the self-defined radical nationalist Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement (HVIM), and Zoltán Szőcs, HVIM’s Transylvanian leader, were each sentenced to five years in prison for what the Romanian authorities saw as an attempt to detonate a home-made explosive device at the parade on Romania’s national holiday on December 1.

The authorities charged them based on intercepted phone conversations and petards found at Beke’s home.

Altogether nine Hungarian youth organisations, including those of the Hungarian ruling Fidesz and Christian Democrat parties, said in a statement that the verdict was “unlawful” and aimed to “intimidate Hungarian communities and whip up already existing anti-Hungarian sentiments.”

The Romanian government, they said, is “playing the Hungarian card to divert attention from the chaotic state of Romania’s internal affairs.”

In “no European country defining itself as governed by the rule of law” can anyone be “sentenced and incarcerated without any evidence of intent or action, based solely on evidence compiled from private conversations,” the statement said.

The youth organisations called on all Hungarian political and religious players and members of the European Parliament to “keep the issue alive and inform the world about this mockery of European and Hungarian law.”

Source: MTI

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  1. Edward says:
    11/07/2018 at 18:11

    The E.U. will not step in or say one word. Bunch of cowards and hypocrites running Europe.

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