Hungary - Prosecutor calls for disbanding extreme-right Hungarian group

Budapest’s prosecutor filed a request to disband a recently formed Hungarian extreme-right group, accusing it of having a racist stance.

"The official letter was presented to Budapest’s municipal court, the competent authority in this case," said spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, Attila Morvai.

The request comes eight days after the group, known as Magyar Garda or Hungarian Guard, organised an anti-gypsy rally where 260 members marched in neo-Nazi uniforms in Tatarszentgyorgy, some 70 kilometres south of Budapest.

The prosecutor’s office said the Hungarian Guard had been guilty of racial discrimination, violating human dignity and causing fear among Hungary’s gypsies, who make up about five percent of the country’s population of 10 million.

Its militant anti-gay, anti-gypsy and anti-Semitic rhetoric has led Jewish and Roma rights groups, as well as politicians and civil society groups in Hungary and abroad, to call for the group’s dissolution.

Source: www.ejpress.org

Date: Dec. 17, 2007

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