Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban ordered police to prevent
protests and rallies that would disturb the World Jewish Congress
General Assembly in Budapest.
Orban issued the ban on Tuesday, Reuters reported, including on an
"anti-Zionist" demonstration planned for Friday, the first day of the
international conference.
The demonstration, called an "anti-Bolshevik and anti-Zionist
people's gathering," was announced earlier this month by Lorant Hegedus
Jr., a Calvinist priest and member of the ultrarightist, anti-Semitic
Jobbik party, which has nearly 15 percent of the seats in Hungary's
Parliament.
The WJC assembly is being held in Budapest -- the first time in many
years it is outside of Jerusalem -- in an expression of solidarity with
Hungary's Jewish community, which in recent years has faced an increased
threat of anti-Semitism.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/04/30/3125516/hungary-bans-protests-for-wjc-confab#When:19:00:00Z
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Hungary bans protests during World Jewish Congress General Assembly in Budapest.
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