Itt-Ott, 1986 (19. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
1986 / 2. szám
Subsection (the secret police)) and mas held from early afternoon until approximately 11 p.m. She uas not formally charged but was repeatedly interrogated and threatened. When the croud reached Kossuth Square) they held a ceremony and sang patriotic songs. Someone made a speech asking for contributions to the Bethlen Fund) a private organization (tolerated by the authorities) that has been established to help the Hungarian mminority in Transylvania. A young man announced that Diószegi had been arrested and demanded her release. The croud crossed the Danube to Batthyányi Square... There they found the police uaiting for them with an elaborate system of speakers that played music so loudly that it uas impossible to hear anything else. After singing the national anthem> the croud left. Their next stop uas Bern Square... Another ceremony was held. The same young man again announced that Olga Diószegi had been arrested and demanded her release. At around 2=30 p.m. the crowd went back to Batthyányi Square) where a sit-in developed as demonstrators announced that they would not move until Olga Diószegi was released by the police. Several thousand people sat down and refused to leave. About 2D police cars and four vans arrived on the scene. A representative of KISZ ... urged the crowd to leave and to appoint a delegation to negotiate with the police. The demonstrators stayed put. At around 4=00 p.m. the police attacked them) beating them with truncheons) dragging many of them from the square by the feet) and forcing them onto public buses. As most of the crowd dispersed) the police confiscated the personal identity cards of 50 to 1D0 persons) and took one young man away. At 7 = 00 p.m. about 5D0 people gathered at the Petőfi statue on the Pest side... Carrying torches) they set out to cross the river... Uhen the crowd was on the bridge) the police blocked both ends of it> trapping them. The demonstrators were forced to leave the bridge single fi Ie> and were beaten with truncheons as they were pushed through the barricade formed by the policemen. Each person's identity card uas confiscated) and they were forced to board public buses and leave the scene. 5. ...On the morning of March 15» three men in civilian clothes went to the apartment of Dr. Tibor Pakh> who had participated in demonstrations in previous years. They took him to the Römer Floris Street police station) where he was held until about 3=00 p.m. without being booked. At that time> he uas put into a car and uas driven around the outskirts of Budapest until late that evening) when he was put out of the car far from the city center. Ezt követte az utolsó lapon az amerikai külügyminisztérium márc. 20-1 nyilatkozata: --UE HAVE SEEN REPORTS OF A VIOLENT BREAKUP OF A PROTEST DEMONSTRATION IN BUDPEST ON MARCH 15 BY HUNGARIAN POLICE. THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTS THAT A NUMBER OF HUNGARIAN DISSIDENTS CONNECTED UITH INDEPENDENT) UNOFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS HAVE UNDERGONE REPEATED HOUSE SEARCHES, CONFISCATION OF MATERIALS, AN0 ADMINISTRATIVELY IMPOSED FINES IN RECENT MONTHS. “UE ARE VERY DISTURBED BY THE ACTIONS OF THE HUNGARIAN AUTHORITIES IN SUPPRESSING PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS BY HUNGARIAN CITIZENS.-UE ARE ALSO DISTURBED BY THE REPEATED HARASSMENT OF PERSONS CONNECTED UITH INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING IN HUNGARY. IN PARTICULAR, JEN0 NAGY (NADj) AND GYÖRGY GA00 HAVE HAD THEIR APARTMENTS SEARCHED A NUMBER OF TIMES IN RECENT MONTHS, MOST RECENTLY ON MARCH 11, AND HAVE HAD PAPERS, DOCUMENTS, PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER MATERIALS CONFISCATED. THEY HAVE HAD HEAVY FINES IMPOSED ON THEM BY POLICE ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES.-THE RIGHTS OF PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AND PEACEFUL FREE EXPRESSION ARE JUST THAT: FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS. THE RECENT ACTIONS BY THE HUNGARIAN AUTHORITIES TO LIMIT EXPRESSION OF THESE RIGHTS CALL INTO QUESTION THEIR COMMITMENT TO OBSERVE THE OBLIGATIONS THEY ASSUMED UNDER THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, THE HELSINKI FINAL ACT, AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS.-34
