Hungarian security service threatens peaceful protestors
According to Magyar Nemzet, the National Security Office (NBH), has released a communique that threatens peaceful demonstrators with jail for anti-state activities.
The communique says the demonstrations of recent weeks, whether they were legal or not, could be used by extremists to commit illlegal or even anti-state activities. "This way, peaceful and legal demonstration can turn into a riot in which the participants - regardless of their original intention - can become accessories to crime simply by being there."
Balázs Dénes, chairman of rights protection organization Society for Freedom Rights (Társaság a Szabadságjogokért), told the paper that the communique "can be interpreted as a threat." He belives no Hungarian court would accuse peaceful demonstrators of committing anti-state crimes just because there are some demonstrators whose intentions are not peaceful.
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