Tóásó was released from prison in February after completing his term but the Bolivian authorities did not return his passport.

The Hungarian embassy in Buenos Aires, which has the accreditation for Bolivia, has therefore issued him a temporary passport, he said. Szijjártó said the ministry had no contact with Mario Tadic, a Croat who left Bolivia together with Tóásó with the help of the Baptist Charity.

He said Tóásó should not have been kept in prison in Bolivia without a sentence for the amount of time he was kept there and Hungary made several diplomatic efforts in his case, including contacting international organisations.

The Baptist Charity said on Sunday that Tóásó and Tadic had been rescued “with technical help” of Hungary’s foreign ministry. Tóásó had been held in pre-trial detention in Bolivia since April 2009, when Bolivian special forces cracked down on what was believed to be a terrorist unit in Santa Cruz. Bolivian- Hungarian Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, ethnic Hungarian from Romania Árpád Magyarosi and Irish citizen Martin Dwyer died in the attack.

Tóásó was arrested and kept in detention under suspicion of participating in an armed uprising and terrorism.

On February 20, 2015, Tóásó and Tadic were sentenced for five years and ten months as part of a plea bargain. Since they had been in detention for nearly six years, the sentence was considered completed and they were released.

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