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Just a quick update in this from Budapest: the accused have a very good lawyer from the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, and the case is widely discussed in Hungary as a very political case. International attention would totally be required though!
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FREEDOM FOR THE ACCUSED IN THE RÖSZKE/HORGOŠ TRIAL
find the post here:
https://noborderserbia.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/solidarity-campaign-freedom-for-the-accused-in-the-rozskehorgos-trial/
There are 11 people on trial , accused by the Hungarian government for
participation in “mass-riot”. They were brutally beaten up and arrested
in a riot police attack last year on 16th of September, at the
serbian-hungarian border Röszke/Horgoš 2 (after the fence was completed
and the border was closed down), when about 5000 people were protesting
and demanding their right to free movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfq2mbssMlM
These 11 people are kept in prison since that day without any support.
One of the accused Ahmed H. has been constructed as the “leader” of the
protest (just because he was talking to a megaphone) and accused for a
“terrorist attack”. He is on a separate trial. At least 3 of the
accused are obviously specially vulnerable, between them a 64 years old
woman and a disabled man in wheelchairs, both of them injured in the war
in Syria. Through their examples the international media covered the
trial, and it was shown how ridiculous it is to pose these people as a
“danger“ for the hungarian state.
see the report here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1KbENKTkDg
Even though the investigation is finished and the trial has started,
which from the legal perspective means that people should have the
right to wait for the trial out of the prison, they are still held in
custody. At least 3 of them in Kiskunhalas detention, and about the
others it’s even not known where they are exactly. All of them are
detained without access to medical or psychological assistance. As far
as it’s known only the 3 vulnerable persons are presented in front of
the court by a Helsinki lawyer. If the court will find them guilty the
sentence could be 1-5 years prison time, and for the syrian man who is
accused for “terrorist attack” it can be 10-20 years.
We want it to be clear, we do not intend to criticize for this absurd
and violent act only the Hungarian government, as the most right wing or
“evil“ country in EU, like many of the so called “democratic”state
institutions, NGOs, and mass media do: the “Horgoš/Röszke” trial is
revealing the reality of a system in which state and police violence is
never put in question, and in which money and goods can move freely but
not people. They are needed only as illegalized cheap workers or
consumers.
FREE THE RöSZKE ELEVEN!
This is an appeal for action! The accused people need support ASAP! If
you are in Hungary or elsewhere and willing to do something, there are
few things what u can do: visit the accused, write solidarity letters,
put attention in their case during other actions, monitor the trials,
share and publish about this case in your networks and wider, help with
getting reliable legal assistance for all of the accused, improve the
solidarity campaign!
Dates of coming trials:
27 JuneSAM_6506 ( Ahmed H.)
29 June, 8 am
30 June, 8:0 am
1 July, 8:00 am
Location : 6722 Szeged, Tábor u. 4. [press must register]
No one should be forgotten! United against all prisons and fences! Free
the Röszke eleven!
Articles:
> http://budapestbeacon.com/news-in-brief/szeged-court-files-criminal-complaint-over-tampered-roszke-testimony/34213
> http://budapestbeacon.com/news-in-brief/judge-orders-new-translations-of-testimony-given-by-roszke-defendants/34084
> http://budapestbeacon.com/public-policy/what-really
rendor_tanuk_a_szegedi_migrans_perben/
> http://index.hu/belfold/2016/04/28/hazug_forditas_keszult_a_megvadolt_roszkei_migrans_karara/
JOIN THE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN!
FREEDOM FOR THE ACCUSED IN THE RÖSZKE/HORGOŠ TRIAL
find the post here:
https://noborderserbia.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/solidarity
-campaign-freedom-for-the-accused-in-the-rozskehorgos-trial/
There are 11 people on trial , accused by the Hungarian government for
participation in “mass-riot”. They were brutally beaten up and arrested
in a riot police attack last year on 16th of September, at the
serbian-hungarian border Röszke/Horgoš 2 (after the fence was completed
and the border was closed down), when about 5000 people were protesting
and demanding their right to free movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfq2mbssMlM
These 11 people are kept in prison since that day without any support.
One of the accused Ahmed H. has been constructed as the “leader” of the
protest (just because he was talking to a megaphone) and accused for a
“terrorist attack”. He is on a separate trial. At least 3 of the
accused are obviously specially vulnerable, between them a 64 years old
woman and a disabled man in wheelchairs, both of them injured in the war
in Syria. Through their examples the international media covered the
trial, and it was shown how ridiculous it is to pose these people as a
“danger“ for the hungarian state.
see the report here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1KbENKTkDg
Even though the investigation is finished and the trial has started,
which from the legal perspective means that people should have the
right to wait for the trial out of the prison, they are still held in
custody. At least 3 of them in Kiskunhalas detention, and about the
others it’s even not known where they are exactly. All of them are
detained without access to medical or psychological assistance. As far
as it’s known only the 3 vulnerable persons are presented in front of
the court by a Helsinki lawyer. If the court will find them guilty the
sentence could be 1-5 years prison time, and for the syrian man who is
accused for “terrorist attack” it can be 10-20 years.
We want it to be clear, we do not intend to criticize for this absurd
and violent act only the Hungarian government, as the most right wing or
“evil“ country in EU, like many of the so called “democratic”state
institutions, NGOs, and mass media do: the “Horgoš/Röszke” trial is
revealing the reality of a system in which state and police violence is
never put in question, and in which money and goods can move freely but
not people. They are needed only as illegalized cheap workers or
consumers.
FREE THE RöSZKE ELEVEN!
This is an appeal for action! The accused people need support ASAP! If
you are in Hungary or elsewhere and willing to do something, there are
few things what u can do: visit the accused, write solidarity letters,
put attention in their case during other actions, monitor the trials,
share and publish about this case in your networks and wider, help with
getting reliable legal assistance for all of the accused, improve the
solidarity campaign!
Dates of coming trials:
27 JuneSAM_6506 ( Ahmed H.)
29 June, 8 am
30 June, 8:0 am
1 July, 8:00 am
Location : 6722 Szeged, Tábor u. 4. [press must register]
No one should be forgotten! United against all prisons and fences! Free
the Röszke eleven!
Articles:
> http://budapestbeacon.com/news-in-brief/szeged-court-files
-criminal-complaint
-over-tampered-roszke-testimony/34213
> http://budapestbeacon.com/news-in-brief/judge-orders-new-
translations-of-testimony-given-by-roszke-defendants/34084
> http://budapestbeacon.com/public-policy/what-really-happened-
at-roszke/27850
in hungarian:
>
http://index.hu/belfold/2016/04/28/roszkei_osszecsapas_
rendor_tanuk_a_szegedi_migrans_perben/
> http://index.hu/belfold/2016/04/28/hazug_forditas_keszult_a_
megvadolt_roszkei_migrans_karara/
