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Hungary's chief justice defends Gypsies

Posted : Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:24:58 GMT
Author : World News Editor
Category : World
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BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 12 Hungary's chief justice has asked lawmakers to work out more efficient laws to safeguard the dignity of the Gypsy, or Romany, community.

Zoltan Lomnici, president of the Hungarian Supreme Court in Budapest Wednesday denounced a recent march by a far-right paramilitary organization aimed at intimidating the Gypsy minority in the country, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported.

Lomnici, responding to a letter by Erno Kallai, the minority ombudsman, said any discrimination by race, religion or gender is unconstitutional and unacceptable.

Some 300 members of the neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard, sporting black dress and carrying red-and-white striped banners, in a hate showing move Sunday marched through a predominantly Gypsy village outside Budapest.

Kallai's letter appealed to politicians and public officials to take stand on the Sunday neo-Nazi march.

Lomnici reiterated Hungary needed amended laws that would easily cope with any actions displaying hatred and threats towards Gypsies and other national minorities.

He confirmed he had already sent proposals relating to his ideas to the parliament's constitutional and judicial committees.

Copyright 2007 by UPI

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Gypsy Rights.
By: Robert , Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:16:32 GMT

This Hungarian Guard is totlaly thrown out of proportion. First you should ask what the Prime Minister and coalition partners want with this mass hysteria that they do constantly. The Red Stripe Flag that you speak of is very old and is not representing NAZI. The Nazi's used this flag as thier own but it had a symbol with it, the Hungarian Guard's Red Stripe Flag is using is the original.



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