The following press
release was sent out by
the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party.
In
the
Szekesfehervar City Court (Hungary, 68 km from Budapest) the
process
against the whole leadership of the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party
started
21 September, Friday. The Court led by judge Mrs. Ilona Sarkozi
gathered to
discuss the cause of Gyula Thürmer, President of the HCWP, Magda
Karacs and
Janos Vajda, vice-presidents of the HCWP, Peter Szekely, Laszlo
Kerezsi, Sandor
Urban, members of the presidium of HCWP and Pal Kollat, former member
of the
presidium of HCWP.
The
public
prosecutor read the official indictment. According to the indictment
the
members of the leadership of the HCWP are accused “in libel made in
public
place” because they characterised a decision of the Budapest Court in
2005 as a
political sentence.
The members of the leadership of the HCWP were questioned by the judge. The Hungarian communist leaders declared that it is their right guaranteed by the Hungarian Constitution to express their opinion freely. They used this right when they characterised the decision of the Budapest City Court as a political one. They asked the Court to finish the legal process and to clear them of the charge because no crime was committed.
The
judge
decided to postpone the session of the Court on the 6 November 2007.
In
front of
the City Court hundreds of communists and inhabitants of Szekesfehervar
had a
meeting of protest and solidarity. The Hungarian media paid great
attention to
the event.
We have fulfilled the mission the party has sent us to the court. – Gyula Thürmer declared on the press-conference after the process. We defended our rights and unveiled that the ruling capitalist forces try to destroy the communist party before the new referendum and parliamentary elections which can take place in the near future. He declared that it rather embarrassing that the second session will take place 6 November, just on the eve of the great day of the Hungarian and the international communist movement, the 90th Anniversary of the October Revolution.
The Internationall Council sent the following statement in support of the HCWP.
“The International Council for Friendship and Solidarity
with Soviet People expresses its solidarity with the Hungarian
Communist
Workers’ Party in its current persecution by the flunkeys of the
present
regime. We would also like to express our sorrow and disgust at the
decline of
Hungary from the dignity of a Socialist Republic to its status of
vassalage to
the New World Order. As an organisation dedicated to a Socialist
restoration in
the nations of the Soviet Union we offer our solidarity and fraternal greetings to the Hungarian
Communist Workers’ Party in its struggle for an independent Socialist
Hungary.”
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