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Hungary Raises Alarm after Slovak Police Arrest Politician over Beneš Decrees
Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó condemned the detention of ethnic Hungarian politician Örs Orosz by Slovak police during a demonstration against the controversial Beneš decrees on Friday, 30 January. In a statement, Szijjártó said he had immediately contacted László Gubík, president of the Hungarian Alliance party in Slovakia, who later informed him that no proceedings would be launched against Orosz. The ministe…
The supposedly extinct Beneš decrees are still being applied in Slovakia: there are hundreds of cases of expropriation without any compensation - directed against the Hungarian minority.
The police apparently want to avoid having to apply in practice the law passed in December that criminalizes criticism of Beneš’s decrees. The harshest test yet was on Friday, when a group of young activists announced a protest in Bratislava against collective guilt. The aim of the protest was to express criticism of the decrees, which are based on the principle of collective guilt, and the amendment to the Criminal Code. Finally, the police, us…
On January 30, people demonstrated in Bratislava against the current consequences of the Beneš decrees, the logic of collective guilt, and the amendment to the law called the “muzzle bill.” The story was still just news before Christmas, but by January it had become a very tangible reality: a sign on a vest is enough for the police to take you away.
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