1987. február (7-13. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
4 i ' HVWORtAM (^^OCTORER'i > iJCSPOíSiSXSaŰl ®mMÍ 2.4/D Little Rüssell Street, LONDON, W-C.i ■ Tel . 01-4&O 21 26 ■ G. Krc»S-s 6 8/1987 6th February, 1987 police raids agaik ia budaplst On the 4th of February, nőt more than 7 days after the confiscation of the paintings of an art exhibition, Hungárián police launched again raids and made house-searches in the Budapest fiat of t$8uS§ngarian intellectuals, Zsolt Keszthelyi /23/ and József Talata /30/. 350 copies of a new"samizdat" journal, manuseripts, silk-sereen frames and priváté letters, notes, photos were confiscated. The police proceedings will probably result in heavy fines. Two policemen in uniforms and several plain-cloth metnbers of the secret police carried out the actions on the 4th of February: in Keszthelyi’s fiat from 5 p.m. till 10 p.m., and at Talata’s from 10 p.m. till 3 a.m. in the night. During the first house-search visitors arrived to Keszthelyi, bút they were stopped by other policemen in the 3taircase, their personal documents were examined and they were detained fór four hours. One of the visitors, Gábor Bouquet, was beaten up by the police. Keszthelyi and Talata were editora of an illegal "samizdat" Journal, Lgtá.jak között /"In-between the Directions of the Compass"/. The last issue of this periodical disclosed the names of those communist writers who had nőt been re-elected intő the Governing Board of the Hungárián Writers’ Union by the last General Assembly of the Union. Because of this, five days before pff icial the house-searches there was a fierce attack, published in Hungárián weekly Élet és Irodalom /"Life and Literature"/, upon the editors of Bgtá.iak között. Among other things, all copies of a new samizdat Journal, edited by Keszthelyi and Talata, was alsó confiscated by the police. The articles of this journal, entitled "Awaking Hungary", dealt with the mernory of the uprising in 1956, with new Hungárián laws, with the economical relations between Hungary and Austria and contained a number of poems. On the very next day, 5th of February, Zsolt Keszthelyi received a notice from the recruiting centre of the Army, informing him that he would be called up fór military service in this month. In recent years there nave been several cases when the Hungárián authorities chose this way to silence politically active young mén. Jf . ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________a ■------------------;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1
