Suspended Jail Term For Far-Right Activist In Hungary

  • 10 Jan 2013 8:00 AM
Suspended Jail Term For Far-Right Activist In Hungary
An unspecified court has given far-right activist Tamás Polgár, also known as Tomcat, a 14-month jail sentence, suspended for five years, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee announced Wednesday. Tomcat wrote “collect 20 people, go down and beat them up without a word,” in a 2009 blog.

Polgár called for violence against Hungarian Roma as an ethnic group, according to the indictment and verdict.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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