1987. február (7-13. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2

tense, i.e. allows individual discrimination in addition to the fact that it States an unprecedented expansion of the area of discriminations relating to a criminal pást. It must be alsó brought to mind that the statutes of paragraph 103 of the IV. Act 1973 of the Hungárián Criminal Code, currently in effect, allow fór convicts sentenced fór long prison terms even the right to appeal fór exemption from the disadvantages relating to a criminal pást only with the passing of a very long time; e.g. in the case of a definite term of imprison- ment longer than five years the convict may appeal with the passing of ten years after the sentence has been served out or its enforceability expired, provided rhat he's nőt a recidivist. Those sentenced fór indefinite terms, i.e. fór life, can never appeal fór exemption. Thus Sándor Racz alsó cannot request it, even after 24 years elapsed since his release, and will therefore never have a clean record, unless the Presidential Council of the Hungárián People's Republic grants him a pardon. Consequently Racz, with many of his companions in the same situation can be excluded from travelling abroad fór all his life.- 2 -