1987. május (53-73. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
í"] ^ «] ®dB 24/0 Littl* Rwfcell Street, LONDON, WCf • Ttl. 04-*SO t< 2tf • G. Krosai 61/1987 /E/ 13rd May, 1987 Zsolt Keszthelyi has been transported to an unknown piacé Perpetrators of military erimes are, in the case of their appeal against the sentence, usually brought to the appeal court one month after their being con- demned. Those defendants, who had been sentenced on the first instance by the Budapest Military Court, are usually kept in custody in the II. District Fó/ Street military prison until the announcement of the judgment of the appeal court. The appeal court is the Béla Stollár Street military council of the Supreme Court. Zsolt Keszthelyi, who objected to military service on conscientious grounds, has been sentenced fór three years in prison by the Budapest Military Court on 27 April. The date fór the session of the appeal court hasn't been fixed yet, Zsolt Keszthelyi, however, has been transported in the meantime to an unknown locality. Keszthelyi even earlier didn't récéivé the majority of the letters addressed to him, on the 7th of May, however, even a parcel,containing toilet tools fór him, was sent back to the consignor with the remark that the addressee has been transported elsewhere. The barrister of Keszthelyi has been informed by the authorities, that his Client has been taken to the penal institution in Pálhalma. However, Keszthelyi was allowed to send a letter to a friend of him in the meantime, in which he made known that he is being kept in the penal institution in Baracska. The friends of Zsolt Keszthelyi are afraid that the authorities are thus trying to prevent him from speaking with visitors. It is noticeable, that he was even earlier, in the aftermath of his árrést on the 25th of February, forbidden to meet his relatives fór six weeks. It alsó came to further solidarity actions in the case of Zsolt Keszthelyi. The Polish pacifist organisation 'Freedom and Peace' has been demanding the re- lease of Keszthelyi and the Czech Petr Pospichal on leaflets. The 28 April issue of the London 'Guardian', which contained an artiele about the conviction of Keszthelyi, was nőt available in the Budapest hotels. At the international seminary lectures of the organisation 'Freedom and Peace', held between the 7th and 9th of May in a Warsaw church, the release of Keszthelyi was alsó demanded. The conference received a message from an East-German humán rights and peace group demanding the right of objection to military service. János Kis, a well-known personality of the Hungárián democratic opposition alsó greeted the seminary, to which the majority of the Eastem European delegates was denied access. The Hungárián government didn't take a stand up to now on the 10 March 1987 decision of the UNO humán rights committee, which declared the objection to military service a legal practice of the freedom of thought, religion and conscience, and which calls upon every member state of the UNO nőt to imprison objectors, bút to assure them the option of altemative service. _________________U_
