In a statement sent to MTI on Thursday, the civil society reacted to the fact that the head of state pardoned the seven defendants in the Budaházy case, who were acquitted by the court in the first instance, and where the committed offense was deemed to be less serious.
Katalin Novák decided in relation to the other ten defendants in the case
„in their case, the accusation is about such serious acts that I consider it correct to decide on their pardon requests only after a final court verdict”.
Katalin Kondor and Loránt Hegedűs, the committee
asks the President of the Republic to " be consistent and not give way to another flagrantly unjust sentence that repeatedly provokes public outrage ", since in their opinion the procedure is " conceptual to the core ", therefore the restoration of the shaken public trust in the judiciary would serve precisely if the would grant pardon to all accused before a repeated second-degree trial.
According to the data of the proceedings, between 2007 and 2009, the terrorist organization Magyarok Nyilai, created by György Budaházy, tried to change the policies of the governing parties and to instill fear in certain groups of the population between 2007 and 2009. Most of the defendants denied the crimes they were accused of.
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