László Toroczkai, a deputy leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party and founder of HVIM, told the hundreds in attendance that people fighting against “the injustice that was Trianon are being persecuted” both in Hungary and the neighbouring countries to which Hungary lost twothirds of its territory with the signing of the peace treaty.

He brought up the case of two local leaders of HVIM in central Romania’s Szekler Land region who were last year arrested on terrorism charges and now face life imprisonment as an example of those persecutions.

He said he had expected the Hungarian government and society to show stronger support for the two men against “the Bucharestcontrolled state terror”.

Speaking in front of the Romanian embassy, György Gyula Zagyva, the co-leader of the HVIM, said Romania intimidated local supporters of Hungarian autonomy in Transylvania in a manner reminiscent of the Ceauşescu regime.

Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.

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