Lawyer, technical translator, political prisoner, anti-communist activist Tibor Pákh died at the age of 98, A Hálózat learned Tibor Pákh went to elementary school in Komárom, started high school with the Piarists in Tata, transferred to the Benedictines in Komárom in 1938, and graduated there in 1942. Graduated from Pázmány Péter University Faculty of Law and Political Science. He enlisted as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. From 1945 to the end of 1948, he was a prisoner of war in forced labor camps in Russia. After returning home, he found out that he had already been declared a kulak because he had inherited his mother's estates.
He was a political prisoner for years because of his revolutionary activities. After his release, he consistently fought for the withdrawal of the occupying forces and the enforcement of the right to self-determination. His writings were published by samizdat publishers. In 1971, he was declared "incurably mentally ill" because Pákh went on a hunger strike in prison. In the spring of 1980, he joined Polish civil rights activists and went on hunger strike at the church in Podkowa Leśna. In October 1981, he also protested against the unlawful confiscation of his passport with a hunger strike.
At that time, he was admitted to the National Nervous and Psychiatric Institute. He was given inhuman medical treatment in the hospital, but then it was no longer possible to hide it, fifty-seven Hungarian intellectuals and several international organizations protested, and finally he was released from the mental institution, but his passport was not returned.
He worked as a translator in the prison, in a cell with two other translators, one of whom was Árpád Göncz. He was arrested for the last time on October 23, 1988, for participating in an opposition demonstration.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
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