Guards employed by Wini Security attempted to build the fence around five hunger strikers led by Balázs Nagy Navarro and Aranka Szávuly early in the morning, in an apparent attempt to separate the hunger strikers from their supporters. It was not known on whose orders the guards acted.

The hunger strikers will file a criminal report, Nagy Navarro announced on Thursday.

Nagy Navarro and Szávuly are convening a rally on Kossuth tér at 6 p.m. on December 31 where they will launch a Tiszta kezek (“Clean Hands”) campaign in defence of the republic and democracy.

The Christian Democrats called opposition support for the hunger strikers a pathetic attempt to create political turmoil and an illegal exertion of pressure on state media.

Nagy Navarro and Szávuly, both vice-presidents of the independent Union of Television and Film Makers, began their hunger strike on December 10 demanding the dismissal of senior officials responsible for the “blurring out” of former chief judge Zoltán Lomnici from a state TV broadcast."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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