Hungarian Writer Kertész Granted Asylum In Canada
- 18 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
Canada has approved writer Ákos Kertész’s application for political asylum, accepting the claim that he is persecuted in his own country. Kertész, who has been living in Canada since February 2012, angered many when he wrote in US-based Amerikai Népszava on August 29, 2011 that Hungarians have not faced up to the Holocaust, in part because they are “genetically subservient” and tend to blame others for their own mistakes.
He later withdrew the “genetically subservient” phrase.
Upon moving to Canada to seek asylum, the now 80-year-old said that Budapest city council had voted to withdraw his honorary citizenship at Jobbik’s initiative and that the pro-government media had incited extremists against him.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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