Five Convicted Of Gay Pride Assaults
- 8 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
An unspecified court has sentenced one person to three years and another to two years imprisonment for their role in assaulting five persons who had taken part in the Budapest Pride parade on July 6, 2013.
Three others were given suspended prison terms. The verdicts are open to appeal.
All of those convicted are members of the successor organisation to banned right-wing paramilitary group the Magyar Gárda.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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