Independent parliamentarian Balazs Lenhardt was detained by Budapest police on Friday evening for burning an Israeli flag at an anti-Zionist demonstration in the Hungarian capital, Hungarian daily Politics reported.
Hungarians protest [archieve] – Photo: Bernadett Szabo/Reuters
Thousands attended an anti-Nazi rally Sunday in Hungary organized by Jewish and civic groups to protest a far-right lawmaker’s call to screen Jews for national security risks.
Participants wave Hungarian national flags and a flag of Romas, right, as thousands of people attend a protest called Mass Demonstration Against Nazism in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. – Photo by AP
The rally was unusual because politicians from both the government and opposition parties shared a stage outside parliament. Continue Reading »
Hungarian police officers – Photo: REUTERS
“Predictably and unfortunately, the good attackers were captured very quickly,” the news edition of Szent Korona Radio, or Holy Crown Radio, reported.
The report was about the arrest of two men, 20 and 21, last Friday on suspicion that they physically and verbally assaulted the 62-year-old president of the Jewish congregation of the Hungarian capital’s South Pest district. Continue Reading »
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