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Journalist serving 150-day jail term for insulting Hungarian far-right politician
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Publisher:  Reporters without Borders
Date Written:  31/07/2012
Year Published:  2012  
Resource Type:  Article

Reporters Without Borders condemns the 150-day jail sentence that a Serbian journalist received for allegedly insulting a Hungarian far-right politician.

Abstract:  Reporters Without Borders condemns the 150-day jail sentence that the Serbian journalist Sa? Laszclo began serving in Subotica, in northern Serbia on 23 July, a sentence he got for posting an article on the Hungarian-language website Magyar Sz� in 2007 that allegedly insulted the Hungarian far-right politician L�szl� Toroczkai.

?Laszclo?s imprisonment is an aberration,? Reporters Without Borders said. ?You cannot convict a journalist on a criminal charge just for criticizing a politicia...
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