1987. szeptember (101-111. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
gfflit 24/0 littU Ru»k«lt Street, LONDONI, W-C.l ■ Til.Ol'HO U U - G. Rra**é 105/1987 (E) 18th September, 1987 Károly Kiszely Emigrates from Hungary Károly Kiszely, a 34 year old theologian and prominent figure in the Hungárián Democratic Opposition movement, left Hungary on September 2 with an emigratory permit and is now in Vienna. Kiszely studied in Szentendre and later learnt to be a lathe operator. He enrolled fór a theology course and completed it by studying full time in the first year and doing the next three years by correspondence. As a conscientious objector he refused to do military service and was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment; he was released in 1978. Since 1982 Kiszely has taken part in Democratic Opposition activities. In national and international forums he insisted that the possibility of doing social Services instead of military service must exist in Hungary and that pacifists should nőt be imprisoned. This possibility should nőt only exist fór small religious sects bút regardless of denomination. In 1985 the ABC independent press published his book Green meditations which was concerned with the protection of the environment. His last job was as a sewage worker in a Chemical factory. In recent years Kiszely has been threatend by the political police on several occassions, among other things they blackmailed him saying that they would expose him as an informer, if he did nőt leave Hungary. Finally he applied fór a passport bút the police alsó demanded that he renounce his Hungárián citizenship. On September 8 Kiszely held a press conference in Vienna, he reported that there are between 120-150 such young people in Hungárián prisons who are conscientious objectors. In prison nearly all denominational representatives can be found among the conscientious objectors. Kiszely named eight Román Catholics who are currently in prison and said from among the small sects there are chiefly Jehovahs Witnesses, Nazarenes and Adventists, who had been sentenced to 2 1/2 - 3 years imprisonment by Hungárián judges. At the press conference Kiszely spoke to the AP, AFP and Reuter press agencies and to Austrian magazines including Die Presse, Arbeiter Zeitung and the daily paper Profil. Károly Kiszely alsó took part, together with the Hungárián Humán Rights Society in Austria, in organizing the demonstration held in Vienna on September 18 which protested fór the release of Zsolt Keszthelyi. Keszthelyi, who refused to do military service on political grounds, was sentenced this year to two and a half years prison in Budapest.
