1988. augusztus (184-207. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
í «H0NGAfMAN ©ssüll Editor: György Krassó * 24/D Little Russell Street * London, WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (írom abroad 441-430 2126) 190/1988 (E) 15th August, 1988 A Retired írón Worker is Sentenced to Thrée Years Charged with Inéitement Although the Budapest national papers did nőt write about the case a short article in the magaziné "Eszak-Magyarország" ("North Hungary") at the end of December caused a sensation when it reported on the árrést of a 6l year old retired iron worker Gyula Kristály. According to the report Gyula Kristály wrote and distributed hostile pamphlets and he was thus charged with "incitement". As it later turnéd out the Miskolc police had conducted an investigation fór many months before they finally arrested the old worker, an act of great daring. Kristály wrote 3-4-00 pamphlets on his typewriter at home which stated that in Hungary, more specifically in County Borsod and in Ózd, unemployment is imminent. He pút the pamphlets, which demanded those who caused the serious economic situation, who have since disappeared from public life, should take responsibility - János Kádár, Sándor Gáspár, György Lázár and Karoly Németh -,in the letter boxes of houses in Miskolc and Ozd.^He was sentenced, after three months on remand to three years imprisonment by the Ózd City Court. Gyula Kristály’s appeal will take piacé on August 30th at 11 am in the Miskolc County Court. Signatures are being collected in Budapest, where it is already possible (or perhaps still possible) to express graver truths without being punished, to protest against Kristály’s árrést. The protest quotes the sentence of the lower court which says that "at the time of the crime because of the existing slump in Miskolc and Ózd" despair was already present among the workforcej the court regarded this as aggravating circumstances, thus Gyula Kristály did nőt njerely express an opinion bút his crime, teliing the truth, made matters worse. The Ózd decision proves that despite a state- ment from the govemment political prisoners still exist. "There are two Hungarys r- continues tfye protest - the Budapest intellectual window display Hungary and the sub- urban, provinciái Hungary where Party leaders and police chiefs still punish prolet- arians who dare to breathe a word with imprisonment, truncheons and psychiatric asylum". The declaration demands that the Court of Appeal discharges Gyula Kristály and asks the population to protest against the decision by signing or taking part in the appeal proceedings. "We demand that the Court declares that what he did was nőt a crime. Because we only want one Hungary. A free Hungary of free citizensi" - finishes the declaration of protest which was signed by 33 workers and intellectuals in Budapest. Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged.
