1988. május (109-137. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
i\ Q§7Qg>\m?2 literi'©Ml Editor: György Krassó * 24/D Little Russell Street * London, WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (írom abroad 441-430 2126) 118/1988 (E) 9th May, 1988 House Search at Gábor Demszky*s On Sunday morning May 8th - a day after Prime Minister Karoly Grósz arrived back from London where he had announced Hungárián reforms and the necessity of deraocratisation - state security detectives and Siófok police raided the sociologist Gábor Demszky*s house. Demszky prints independent periodicals - samizdat magazines - in a house by Laké Balaton. During the house search the police confiscated 1500 copies of the new issue of A Hírmondó /The Messenger/ and 750 half completed copies of the third issue of the samizdat periodical Magyar Zsidó (Hungárián Jew) which was to replace the 960 copies confiscated on March 8th. Pages from Béla Szász*s new book alsó feli intő police hands as well as a Rotaprint press. Gábor Demszky edits the biggest and oldest - formed in 1980 - samizdat press. AB independent press has published more than 100 political and literary works in recent years, among them writings by George Orwell, Vaclav Hável, Milán Kundera, György Faludy and György Konrád. In 1983 Demszky was assaulted in the street by police with truncheons, he was tf>en given a suspended sentence charged with assaulting an official. Following this he was nőt harassed fór a time bút this year on March 8th a house search was conducted in his Budapest fiat bút to no avail. On March 15th he was arrested along with several others. Many official declarations reveal that the party leaders seek scapegoais and try to hold them responsible fór Hungárián political agitation. £ Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged.
