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Nazi hunters: Australia has failed to act against Holocaust perpetrators
The Israel branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre on Sunday criticised Australia and several other countries for failing to do enough to bring perpetrators of the Holocaust to justice. The centre’s 12th annual report on efforts to hunt down Nazis accuses a raft of nations of failing to prosecute or…
Hungary bars foreigners from buying farmland
Hungary has amended its constitution to bar foreigners from buying farmland, a move the government called “historic,” but one that could cause friction with the European Union. Foreigners are already blocked from buying farmland under a temporary measure that formed part of Hungary’s EU accession agreement in 2003. But that…
Anti-Nazi protest in Hungary after politician calls for screening Jews
Thousands of anti-Nazi protestors attended a rally in Budapest after a Hungarian politician suggested that Jews should be screened because they pose a security threat, reported the Associated Press. Martin Gyongyosi, vice-chair of the foreign affairs committee in Hungary’s legislature, said the government needed “to assess … how many people…
Nazi war criminal revelation stokes Hungary fears
BUDAPEST — News that the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal is living freely in Hungary is the latest incident to spark fears that the country is veering alarmingly to the right. In particular, there are concerns that anti-Semitism, largely dormant under Hungary’s communist era that ended two decades…
Author Elie Wiesel returns Hungary’s Order Of Merit after Nazi ‘whitewash’
Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel has returned Hungary’s highest honour in protest at the “whitewashing” of its Nazi past, according to a letter published Tuesday. Wiesel said “it has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary’s past,”…
Hungarian home birth activist sent to jail
When the police ring Dr Agnes Géreb’s doorbell, late on a Thursday night, she quickly hunches forward on her sofa in an instinctive gesture of self-protection. Then, with infinite tiredness, she shuffles to the front door. A police officer impatiently demands her signature and disappears into the darkness. Saturday will…
Hungarians protest en masse against new constitution
BUDAPEST — Tens of thousands protested Monday against Hungary’s new constitution, which critics say curbs democracy, while the governing centre-right government celebrated the new law at a gala event. The demonstration entitled: “There will be a Republic again”, was organised by civil groups which claimed nearly 100,000 people gathered on…
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