1988. november (277-303. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
r - — i í m w# m gaiuam ©«£ Editor: György Krassó * 24/D Little Russell Street * London, WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (írom abroad 441-430 2126) 289/1988 (E) 15th November, 1988 Poliee Dlsperse Protest in Budapest Aealnst the Románián Terror The Hungárián independent Refugee Committee and the Free Románia group, who were later joined by twelve other democratic groupings, announced that a peaceful march commemorating the Brasow workers uprising is to take piacé this afternoon* The organisers of the action had already cancelled their original plán to hold a big meeting in Csepel yesterday and to march írom Vörösmarty Square to Parliament today, instead they will march írom a small square off Thököly Street called by them Hungárián-Románián Solidarity Park to the Románián Embassy. The organisers asked fór permission to hold the protest on Wednesday, on í’riday Poliee Lieutenant Colonel Dr Sándor Pongor told them that the action is prohibited and all possible means vdll be employed to prevent it. This threat which was repeated yesterday was carried out by poliee: brutal violence was employed against the protesters. Both the meeting piacé on Thököly Street and the Románián Embassy were surrounded by poliee. Instead the protesters carrying banners and placards lined up on the comer of Thököly Street and Dózsa György Street at around 5 pm and set off towards the Eastera Railway Station. The poliee did nőt allow them to walk on the road bút forced them onto the pavements and at Baross Square a great many more poliee appear- ed on motorbikes and in vans and rushed the crowd. They attacked the marchers (about 800 of them) with truncheons and tear gas and beat people up indiseriminately. They assaulted Géza Dely who is twenty years old and a member of the "Conscience 88" group and Gábor Bouquet, a metál worker, was beaten about the face with truncheons. Vilmos Bereczki who is a member of the "Independent Committee in Defence of Transyl- vania" had his legs run over by a poliee motorbike. They handeuffed Dr Tibor Pakh and arrested Zsigmond Ritoök, Gábor Bouquet and others. János Vénusz a miner from Bököd in Tatabánya was »o seriously beaten on the head that he had to be taken to the Péterfi Street Hospital from where he was transferred to the neurosurgery ward in the Róbert Károly Hospital. It took almost an hour to disperse the protest, the participants of which responded to poliee provocation with eries of "Fascists" and "Poliee State". At 7 pm a commemoration of the first anniverseny of the Brasow workers uprising was held in the Jurta Theatre. It opened with a statement by the Refugee Committee, the Free Románia group and other groupings who had announced the protest. The statement, which had been issued in the moming, held the poliee responsible fór all atrocities which might occur. Short accounts of the protest were alsó given and an announcement by several members of the Free Románia group about how their residence permits had been invalidated by the Ministry of the Interior. This was followed by literary readings and historical commemorations. Poliee cars surrounded the theatre. Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged.
