BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Budapest court on Tuesday found a former senior official in the Hungarian Communist Party guilty of war crimes during the suppression of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.
It was the first trial launched against a former top Communist in Hungary after the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a staunch anti-Communist, pushed through a law in 2011 which opened the way to dealing with crimes committed after the 1956 uprising.
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