Hungary: Writer harassed after saying Hungarians had not faced up to their Holocaust crimes

Akos Kertesz, a prize-winning Hungarian writer, was granted political asylum in Canada last week after he claimed he was being persecuted in Hungary.

Mr Kertesz, 80, said he had been constantly harassed in his native country and attacked in the street after he wrote an open letter for US-based Hungarian language newspaper Amerikai Nepszava in which he said that Hungarians had not faced up to their Holocaust crimes.

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