1988. március (32-68. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_1
- 2 jj . . 1 ti ti WALL ÖT1UÜJUT JUUiíJNAL.! í EUROPE [ fRi£M thí Netherlands FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1986 O 1988 Dow Ionét £ C ■ ----!----------------------------------------------- ' I I -------------------—! ij they sustained themselves lose thelr pasa- porta. ^ • Enforcement measures: Passports ' can be denied to anyone under pollce surveíllance. local banishment or Intern- ment. Sucb retallatlon la unlawfu! per se, aa It doesn't pumah (or a críme bút (or a conduct wlthout due procesa. • Violatíons of Hungary ’s laws during previous travel abroad: ConfiacaUon o( pasaporta on sucb ground may be the most dangerous polltlcai restrtctlon. Slmllar In approach to the State securlty artlcle, lt doesn't lnvolve common crlmea commltted abroad llke shopllftlng that are covered speciflcally by another. relatlvely lenlent, artlcle. Thls category la tor those who, tor example, gave intervtews to the Hungarlan- language broadcasta of, say. the Volce of America. BBC or Radlo Free Europe, or who publlshed matéria! In the Western presa crltlcal of the régimé In Budapest. The artlcle replaces a rule that speclfled the duratlon of punlshment wlth one tnat retaliates tor a slngle violádon wlth perma- nent exclualon. í People who apply and don't récéivé polltlcai asylum abroad fali under thls clause. They alsó face a two-year prison term. Austrlan and West Germán authorl- tles err in stating that no retallatlon awaits Hungarians who go home after thelr appli- cation tor polltlcai asylum la denied In the West. Slnce last fali the Interior Mlnístry has been trying to damp enthusiasm caused by the advent of the passport reform. In November, it declared that passports could ^ contínue to be denied wlthout elaboratlon. , Last month a colonel ín the bordér guard stated that staying abroad wlthout the requlred flnancial means will draw long- term travel suspenslon. In Budapest, the head of the Passport Office announced that all conduct résül tlng in a negative opínion of- Hungary will be considered as a violádon of the law. About 5,000 appltcadons are re- Jected each year, accordlng to mlnis- try data. This is less than 1% of totál requests. The less well-to-do are adequately fríghtened by the arbitrary appilcatíon of passport rules. Fór better people, such drasdc measures are seldom necessary: it’s sufflcient to keep them in constant fear of losing their passports. The more useful a i passport is. after all, the better it works aa z method of intlmidatíon. Mr. Kőszeg is a member of the editortól board of the unofficial quarterly. Beszelő (Tóikért. During his 1986 visit to the U.S. he published on article in The Wall Street Journal. On retuming to Hungary, he was 5 deprived of his passport. ’VTJV HMT T CTDDTJ'T miíDMU s3
