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László Rusal is Held in a Glosed Psychiatric Ward.

The Rusai Committee’s Latest Statement.

Just five days after their last declaration the Budapest Rusai Committee issued a név statement concerning László Rusai the Hatvan inhabitant vho has already been held fór more than tvo months on remand in a closed psychiatric várd. On January 6th the Rusai Committee appealed to Hungárián doctors asking them nőt to support political persecution. On January 11th the Committee gave an account of hov Rusai vas assigned to a closed mentái várd vithout either him or his mother being informed of the decision. It can only be hoped that the Hungárián authorities vili nőt introduce the use of political psychiatry vhen it has been officially condemned in the Soviet Union and is classified as a erime.

In the recently published announcement no. 4* the Committee reported on hov László Rusai vas taken to the psychiatric várd of Gyöngyös City Hospital on January 7th. On the folloving day tvo of his friends managed to see him al- though a nurse vas present throughout their conversation. The announcement says that Rusai vas "uncertain and dazed, he could hardly get his vords out and spoke in a confused manner. He vas probably under the influence of drugs."

On Sunday January lOth his visitors found Rusai level-headed and animated.

László Rusai told his visitors that he vas arrested on November 9th and on the day after he vas taken from Hatvan to Eger vhere he vas locked in solitary, three days later he vas told that he vas suspected of subversion and pút on remand.

He vas only interrogated fór the first time five days later; tvo detectives Petrovics and Turányi vrote a distorted police report in vhich Rusai vrote saying that it did nőt tally vith the faets. The detectives refused to notify the designated Budapest lavyer, did nőt allov him to vrite to his friends and did nőt give him his usual medecines either. Petrovics forced him to submit a vriting specimen at gun point.

After this Rusai vas taken to the prison in Kozma Street fór more than a months "psychiatric observation". He could nőt keep track of time bút he guesses that he vas retumed to Eger Police Station on Név Years Eve. From here he vas taken to the Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Hospital in Budapest on January 4th, the reason and purpose of this are unknovn. Then on the folloving day he vas taken to the closed psychiatric várd in Gyöngyös Hospital. Here he vas visited by detective Petrovics and told that, being mentally damaged, proceedings against him vould cease.

The Committee vritea tnat Rusai "Does nőt knov fór vhat reason and fór hov long they vish to keep him in hospital. He is there by force, if he could have decided he vould have consulted a G.P. of his ovn choosing earlier".

After this the Committee gave voice to the opinion that the state secur^ty agencies in County Heves vanted to pút Rusai in a mentái institution from the outset because they knev that in 1988 he could nőt be charged and sentenced fór putting the Kossuth Arms in his vindov. The Committee*3 announcement closes as follovs; "They committed a erime against László Rusai, abusing their pover and revealing that nobody Can really exercise control over the political police. This time ve hope that ve are vrong and that the County Heves prosecutor and chief prosecutor of the Hungárián Peoples Republic vili initiatean investigation intő the County Criminal Investigation Department as vas requested by the Rusai Committee in their appeal to them on December 22nd 1987".