President of Hungarian Movement for Democratic Society (TDM), Attila VAJNAI has been detained on Saturday by the police in Budapest, because having a red star distinctive on his cloth during a ceremony at the monument of soviet soldiers died in the Second World War for the liberation of Hungary. Vajnai was participating together with other people at the commemoration, when police has intervened arresting him. TDM is member organisation of Hungarian Social Forum and active partner of European Social Forum. This was the first time, that hungarian authorities have perpetrated a political detention for reason of red star. Red star is one of symboles in Hungary forbidden by law as „symbol of dictatorship”. Hungary will be the only country in EU from 1st of Mai, where red star is prohibeted by the law.
Hungarian Social Forum expresses its total solidarity with the President of TDM, it condemns his detention, asks the immediate liberation of Vajnai, and invites all the organisations of the European Social Forum to do the same.
Endre Simó, Program Coordination East Europe, Hungarian Social Forum’s organiser
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