Budapest Informer

Slovakia wants war crimes suspect Prosecutors in Slovakia are pressing for the extradition of Hungarian war crimes suspect László Csatáry. The 98-year-old former police commander was arrested in Budapest last summer on suspicion of complicity in the transportation of 15,700 Jews from … Read more on Budapest Times

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Hungary detains suspect for killings after 1956 uprising Bela Biszku, 90, was detained on suspicion of war crimes for having directly supervised a Military Council that ordered the shootings of civilians during protests in Budapest and in the eastern Hungarian town of Salgotarjan in December 1956. Large … Read more on Reuters

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Hungary detains suspect for killings after 1956 uprising BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary on Monday detained a former top Communist party official for his role in the bloody suppression of an anti-Soviet uprising in 1956, the first time that any of the Soviet-backed leaders of the time is brought to justice in … Read more on [...]

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Hungary detains suspect for killings after 1956 uprising BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian prosecutors on Monday detained a former top Communist party official for his role in the bloody suppression of an anti-Soviet uprising in 1956. It was the first time that any of the Soviet-backed Hungarian leaders of the … Read more on euronews

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Australia's highest court blocks extradition of Nazi war crime suspect They are thought to have thrown the victim's body into the Danube River in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. In a 5-1 decision, the court ruled that Zentai could not be extradited because "war crime" did not exist as a legal offence in Hungary in 1944 [...]

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Nazi suspect in Australia wins court fight against extradition Charles Zentai, now 90, was accused by Hungarian authorities of beating to death a Jewish teenager, Peter Balazs, in Budapest in 1944. Australia's highest court ruled that Zentai could not be extradited to the country of his birth because the offence … Read more on euronews

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He has denied any guilt. Hungarian authorities arrested Csatary and put him under house arrest in Budapest earlier this month after he had spent decades on the run. “We have one of the last chances to punish World War Two crimes,” Slovak Justice … Budapest – Bing News

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Controversy Swirls Around Hungarian Nazi War Crimes Suspect He tells host Marco Werman that he's worried authorities in Budapest don't have the political will to arrest the man. But Hungarian investigators have called the evidence against Csatary flimsy. Read the Transcript The text below is a phonetic … Read more on PRI’s The World

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Hungary charges Nazi-era suspect with war crimes BUDAPEST, Hungary — A 97-year-old Hungarian man suspected of abusing Jews and helping deport thousands of them during the Holocaust was taken into custody Wednesday, questioned and charged with war crimes, prosecutors said. Budapest's acting … Read more on Atlanta Journal Constitution

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'Most wanted' Nazi war crimes suspect arrested in Budapest His arrest came after his whereabouts were widely publicised at the weekend, prompting anti-Nazi protesters and journalists to protest outside the Budapest apartment where he had lived undetected for 17 years. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a Nazi … Read more on The Independent

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Groups call on Hungary to try war criminal suspect Hungary said Monday it is investigating whether a Holocaust-era war criminal has been living in the capital, Budapest, as international and domestic groups clamored for him to be placed on trial. Read more on Macon Telegraph (blog)

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