Extreme-Right politics in Hungary
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Blood and Honour dissolved by courts
The Blood and Honour Culture Association was dissolved by the Court of Budapest on 1 December because its public announcements and symbols 'offended the dignity of people'.
13 December 2004 (75 words)
Controversial referendum on citizenship for ethnic Hungarians
A referendum held on privatisation of the health service and dual citizenship for ethnic Hungarians abroad appeared to have been a failure; a narrow majority voted in favour of offering some 5m ethnic Hungarians citizenship but the overall turnout was only 37 per cent.
12 December 2004 (125 words)
Extreme-Right commemorate '56 uprising
A crowd of around 10,000 gathered in Hosoktere to remember the uprising of 1956 with the extreme-right Justice and Life Party.
30 October 2004 (51 words)
Demonstration plans draws mass protest
Plans by the ultra-right wing neo-Nazi Group for a Hungarian Future to hail the 60th anniversary of the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross take over in front of Budapest's Terror House Museum on 15 October have been widely criticised.
23 October 2004 (196 words)
Bácsfi to undergo psychological tests
Diana Bácsfi, leader of the neo-Nazi Hungarian Future Group has been ordered to undergo psychological tests by the Budapest Central District Court.
21 September 2004 (70 words)
Extreme-right leader arrested
The National Investigations Office has arrested Diana Bacsfi, leader of the extreme-right Group for a Hungarian Future (Magyar Jovo Csoport) on a charge of incitement against the community.
17 September 2004 (103 words)
Roma MEP urges Commission to act
The first ever Roma MEP, 29-year-old Hungarian, Livia Jaroka, has told the EUobserver that she wants the Commission to take the Roma issue more seriously.
30 July 2004 (93 words)
Holocaust museum terror plot foiled
Three men (a Palestinian and two Syrians) were arrested on 13 April on suspicion of being involved in a plot to attack the Budapest Holocaust museum, which was due to be opened on 15 April.
16 April 2004 (101 words)
Fascist demonstration allowed in Budapest
On 11 February the Hungarian branch of Blood and Honour mobilised 600 people to demonstrate in memory of Hungarians who collaborated with the Nazis to defend Budapest against the Red Army.
1 April 2004 (113 words)
Citizens' Circles accused of inciting anti-Semitism
As Hungary approached its entry into the EU in May, the public debate, orchestrated by the Citizens Circles, as to what constituted traditional Hungarian culture and the place in it of Christianity has seen an ugly resurgence of anti-Semitism and anti-leftism.
26 March 2004 (247 words)
European elections: no representation for xenophobic MIEP party
The extreme-Right Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIEP) contested the June European elections but failed to cross the 5 per cent threshold necessary to gain representation.
17 March 2004 (38 words)
International action on forced sterilisation
The European Roma Rights Center and Legal Defence Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities (NEKI) has filed a complaint, with the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, against Hungary, over the case of Ms S., a Romani Hungarian woman, who was sterilised without her informed consent.
13 February 2004 (176 words)
Welcome for OSCE action plan
The European Roma Rights Centre, based in Hungary, has welcomed the action plan for improving the situation of Roma and Sinti in the Ministerial Council of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
5 December 2003 (86 words)
First conviction under incitement law
The Appeals Court has overturned the conviction of a Calvinist pastor on charges of incitement to hatred after he wrote an article stating that Hungary had been weakened by 'hordes of flotsam and jetsam from Galicia'.
28 November 2003 (133 words)
Right-wing opposes Holocaust film
Levente Szorenyi, a rightwing composer, has denounced plans to stage a Holocaust film in Hungary, based on the book, 'Fateless' by 2002 Nobel laureate Imre Kertesz.
7 November 2003 (95 words)
Budapest: Roma leaders gather to demand a better deal
Roma leaders gathered in Budapest in July to demand an end to persecution and for a general mobilisation in Europe to reverse their entrenched poverty and isolation.
1 July 2003 (249 words)
Former extreme-Right MP receives jail sentence
In December 2002, Lóránt Hegedüs, vice president of the far-Right Justice and Life Party (MIEP) received an 18-month suspended prison sentence after writing an article for the party newspaper calling for segregation of Jews.
1 February 2003 (84 words)
Roma homes firebombed
Children hospitalised after arson
1 January 2002 (182 words)
Courts fail to consider racial motivation for young Roma's killing
When sentencing a young man, Zoltan S., who stabbed and killed a 15-year-old Romani boy during a masked raid on his mother's home in Mándok, eastern Hungary, the court made no mention of racial motivation in the case.
1 August 2000 (103 words)
Alert! Growing government collaboration with far-Right
According to Searchlight, there is growing cooperation between the ruling centre-Right coalition government and the 14 MPs from the far-Right Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIEP).
1 August 2000 (79 words)
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