1987. szeptember (101-111. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
í'I áriám ol 2.4/0 Littl* R»t»«fl Street, LONDONI, WC. 1 Ttl. PÍ-e»o i i u • G. kra**A 101/1987 (E) Ist September, 1987 Coordinated Police Actions Against "The Democrat" The Hungárián political police have held another search in the home of Jenő Nagy, organizer of ABC Independent Publishing House and "Democrat Club", and have confiscated several hundred copies of the latest issue of the samizdat journal Demokrata ("The Democrat"). According to reports from Budapest the police have taken great care in planning its somewhat over-kill operation against the samizdat publication. Jenő Nagy's wallet - in which he kept his driving licence too - disappeared under mysterious circumstances from his cár on the previous day. The cár was parked near his home in the green-belt area of Rómaipart. The following morning he had hardly started up his cár when he was stopped by the police. Giving the reason that he was driving without proper documents the police then took him to the district police station; his cár was searched - without success, from the police's point of view. Jenő Nagy was later released from the police station bút by the time he arrived home there was another policeman waiting fór him and inquiring about the package which a neighbour was supposed to have found while mowning the lawn. In the next hour and a half somé twenty policemen, with three cars, led by state-security detectives arrived at the scene to search his home. During the search which lasted fór hours the police seized several hundred copies of the samizdat journal, the Demokrata, which was published on that same day. The police even confiscated piles of blank drawing papers found in the fiat. The policemen then went round to the neighbouring houses and in one of them they confiscated a duplicator. Jenő Nagy's home has been searched many times in the pást and this year he has already been fined 20 000 forints. The 88 page long July-August issue of Demokrata published the texts of speeches given to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the execution of Imre Nagy and his followers who stood in the dock with him. It alsó published the translation of an article which had appeared in the United States 30 Years ago about "The Mán Who Wanted To Help Hungary". The article describes John Richardson, a young American, who in the Autumn of 1956 collected a large amount of medicine fór the fighting Hungarians and sent it off to Budapest. The journal's other articles dealt with issues such as the Summer session of the National Assembly, austerity measures in economic policy, environmental pollution in Hungary and the plight of conscientious objectors. Further writings in the journal included pieces on poverty, police oppression, Hungarians living as national minorities in neighbouring countries, the West-European practice of granting political asylum as well as the problems of other East-European nations. 4
