Violence and harassment in Hungary
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Roma dies during arrest
An investigation has been launched into the death in July of a 19-year-old Roma man during his arrest by a Kecskemét policeman, who forcibly pinned him to the ground, forcing his head into the sand.
7 August 2004 (93 words)
Lenient sentences for skinhead attackers of Roma
The Roma Press Center in Uj Neplap has criticised the lenient sentences handed down to five young skinheads who assaulted and racially abused two young Roma in 1999 after an incident at a disco.
1 August 2002 (85 words)
Discriminatory Status Law provokes dispute
In a bid to get Bucharest to recognise a law giving Hungarians living in Romania special treatment in Hungary, the government extended the benefits to Romanians.
1 August 2002 (205 words)
Kalocsa: locals say no to Afghan refugees
An immigration officer backed down from a proposal to send Afghan refugees to Kalocsa after 2000 people packed a local consultation meeting and the mood turned ugly.
1 August 2002 (252 words)
Court rules school segregation illegal
The Romany civil rights foundation has described a court ruling against the Pethe Ferenc elementary school in the east-Hungarian town of Tiszavasvári as a milestone in Hungarian legal practices relating to school discrimination.
1 November 1999 (82 words)
Hungarian version of Protocols published
A public inquiry into the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' has been launched after Jewish and Christian leaders initiated a campaign against a Hungarian-language version of the text.
1 November 1999 (78 words)
Romany demonstrate against racist attacks in Gyöngyös
The Hungarian Romany parliament called a demonstration on 25 November in Gyöngyös after petrol bombs were thrown into the home of a Romany family.
1 March 1995 (54 words)
Exploitation of Romanian Gypsies
Romanian Gypsies have been kept in conditions of virtual slavery by Hungarian farmers, according to an exposé in the Magyar Nemzet newspaper.
1 April 1993 (46 words)
Libyan student attacked
Ten skinheads attacked and physically injured Abboabbaud Mohammed, a Libyan student at Budapest University, on 15 October 1992.
1 December 1992 (43 words)
Press anti-Semitism
Whilst the Hungarian daily, Magyar Forum has argued vehemently that there is no anti-Semitism in Hungary, the Magyar Narancs has carried an anti-Semitic article of an extremely abusive nature by Gallo Bella.
1 December 1992 (88 words)
Attacks on gypsies
The first pogrom against gypsies in Hungary since the war has been carried out in the village of Ketegyhaza on the Great Hungarian plain.
1 December 1992 (115 words)
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