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Category Archives: Hungarian Roma
Contrarian Hungarian Updates
I collected updates to three important stories reported on the Contrarian Hungarian blog in this post. The first details a legal decision that closed the Magyar Sziget incitement to hatred case. The second describes recent developments related to the criminalization … Continue reading
Scandalous Jobbik “Civil War Tapes” (with transcript of Gyöngyöspata mayor’s remarks)
Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party has gone to great length to keep up appearances that it intends to participate in the democratic practices of Hungarian politics. It is being rumored that their parliamentary caucus has been split ever since one of … Continue reading
Posted in Gyöngyöspata, Hungarian far-right militias, Hungarian Roma, Hungary, Jobbik
Tagged ATV, Jobbik-Iran connection, Juhász Oszkár
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Jobbik Stages Rural Guard Demonstrations to Attract Voters
The fresh months of the spring are upon us – traditionally these have been the best time for Hungarian far-right party Jobbik to recruit new members. According to Zoltán Balczó, vice-president of the party, Jobbik will focus its political energies … Continue reading
Posted in For a Better Future Civic Guard, Hungarian far-right, Hungarian Roma, Hungary, Jobbik
Tagged Jászjákóhalma, Kerecsend, Konyár, Tamás Sneider
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Trouble in Sajókaza: Being Buddhist and Roma
Last week, uniformed police officers surrounded the high school of a small Hungarian town. Their targets: four Roma students, all between the ages of 14 and 16, who were to be arrested and transported in handcuffs for questioning at the … Continue reading
Hungarian Guards at Flag-burning Protest – On Fidesz and the Hungarian Far-Right
Update to the post on Jan. 22, 2012: source and link to pictures added to ending paragraphs on previous marches of the New Hungarian Guard in the latter half of 2011. For the last few days, one of the most … Continue reading
A Hate Crime Case from Hungary, Retried and Revisited
Six perpetrators of a “hate crime” were released last week in Hungary, after having served two years and eleven months in jail for attacking three passengers of a car passing through Miskolc. Considering that the crime targeted the victims on the … Continue reading
Posted in hate crimes in Hungary, Hungarian far-right militias, Hungarian Roma, Hungary
Tagged Miskolc, Muszkás oldal
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Far-Right MEP Morvai Not Welcome in Gandhi High School
Krisztina Morvai, member of the European Parliament for Jobbik, Hungary’s far-right party, was turned away from from a lecture in Eastern-Europe’s only school for students of Roma nationality. One of the most outspoken politicians of a party well-known for its … Continue reading
Hungarian News Digest – Oct. 15, 2011
Hungarian far-right appointed to operate theater, György Matolcsy’s 750,000 HUF/month advisor, consequences of hate crimes and homelessness: covering the first half of October, here’s another edition of the short-format collection of Contrarian Hungarian news otherwise known as the Hungarian News … Continue reading
Posted in English-language Hungarian news, Fidesz, Gyöngyöspata, György Matolcsy, hate crimes in Hungary, Hungarian far-right, Hungarian government, Hungarian News Digest, Hungarian Roma, Hungary, Jobbik, Magyar Sziget 2011, neo-nazis in Hungary, New Theater (Új Színház)
Tagged Új Színház, Budapest Pride, Dörner György, Gyöngyöspata, Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, HVIM, István Tarlós, Kopátsy Sándor, László Toroczkai, Matolcsy György, TASZ
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Is Hungary a Prejudiced Society?
Surprising if not incredible findings were the result of a survey probing into the racist feelings harbored by Hungarian youth in 2010. 1000 teenagers, between the ages 12-19, were asked to fill out a questionnaire designed to measure their propensity … Continue reading
Mandatory Public Work Projects in Hungary
“We would like to give them valuable and useful work,” said Károly Papp, undersecretary of Hungary’s Department of the Interior, the public officer in charge of Hungary’s public works program. “Workers are going to learn agriculture for a year, and … Continue reading
Posted in criminalization of poverty, extreme right electoral wins, Fidesz, Gyöngyöspata, Hungarian far-right militias, Hungarian government, Hungarian Roma, Hungary, Jobbik, közfoglalkoztatási törvény, közmunka, munkanélküliség, public works, Sándor Pintér, unemployment, Viktor Orbán, workers rights
Tagged forced labour camps
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Hate Crimes in Hungary
In Hungary, if you are homeless, you have to pay. As much as 50,000 Hungarian forint, which is the equivalent of 185 EUR or 267 USD. According to a municipal law dated April 27, 2011, anybody found to conduct a “lifestyle … Continue reading
Posted in Budapest 8th district, criminalization of poverty, Gyöngyöspata, hate crimes in Hungary, Hungarian far-right militias, Hungarian Roma, Hungary, Viktor Orbán
Tagged csepeli hajléktalangyilkosságok, dumpster diving, Gyöngyöspata, hajléktalanok, hajléktalanság, kukázás, kukázásra való bujtogatás, skipping
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Who Are the Supporters of Jobbik: A Psychological Profile
Recent spikes in the support of Jobbik, Hungary’s far-right party, have taken many by surprise. The party already came in 4th in the 2010 parliamentary elections with 16.63% of the votes. This summer however, in Gyöngyöspata, where previously anti-Roma para-militaries … Continue reading
Jobbik Mayor vs. Fidesz MP: Tarantula Dreams of Being Butterfly, Does Not Want to Be Eaten While Cocoon
Weekend of July 23-24, 2011: Scandal Around Newly Elected Jobbik Mayor, and Viktor Orbán Gives Another Speech at Tusnádfürdő
Posted in Fidesz, Gyöngyöspata, Hungarian Roma, Hungary, Jobbik, Viktor Orbán
Tagged Balázs Jószef, Juhász Oszkár, Tusnádfürdő
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War Crimes Trial in Hungary: After Court Acquits His Client, Képíró’s Lawyer Files Appeal
Today the defense attorney for Sándor Képíró, a gendarme captain of the Hungarian Army during a 1942 raid against partisans fighting against the Nazi occupation filed an appeal in the case against his client at the Budapest Metropolitan Court. During the course of … Continue reading