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106/1987 /E/ September 19th 1987

The Hungárián Olga Diószegi alsó .joins the Polish Hunser Strike

Since Sunday there has been a hunger strike taking piacé in a Catholic church in Bydgosz.cz Poland, protesting fór the release of young Polish, Czech and Hungárián conscientious objectors. At the beginning of the week the hunger strikers sent a letter to the Hungárián Embassy in Warsaw demanding the release of Zsolt Keszthelyi who has been sentenced to two and a half years. The number of participants at the beginning of the hunger strike was 42 bút during the week the nurabers increased daily. Yesterday, on September 18th, the Hungárián Olga Diószegi, a student at Szeged University, travelled to Poland and joined the hunger strikers.

International protests have taken piacé on Zsolt Keszthelyi's behalf before.

The Polish "Freedom and Peace" movement have already distributed pamphlets and organised demonstrations in aid of Keszthelyi’s release. Their 41st circular reproduced the text of the message that Keszthelyi had sent to Polish conscientious objectors from prison, which had been taped in Polish. END, the organisation fór European Nuclear Disarmament, held a peace festival in Coventry and sent a letter in July to János Kádár demanding Zsolt Keszthelyi's release, as did the London conference, attended by 33 organisations who support Solidarity, in August. Yesterday the Hungárián Humán Rights League in Austria organised a demonstration in Vienna in aid of Zsolt Keszthelyi.

Nőt long ago the Hungárián Military Attorney Generals Department and the High Court sent a letter, dated September llth, to three of Keszthelyi's friends stating that they would nőt grant their application fór a lawful protest on Keszthelyi's behalf because the acting courts "had observed the rules of criminal law" and that their sentence was "legal and well founded".

Over the page we have printed a reduced copy of the "Freedom and Peace" movement’s pamphlet and bulletin, the letter from the Solidarity Conference to János Kadar and the END pamphlet.