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No surrender: Hungarian borders must be protected by Hungarians

We do it ourselves. We have experience defending a border. We know how to do it

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PM Orbán in Moscow: Hungary values its good relations with Russia

“It is in Hungary’s national interest that cooperation between the two parts of Europe are as good as possible"

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PM Orbán: Nobody takes away our right to border protection

Hungary is neither a transit zone, nor a holding camp

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PM Orbán: “They want to take away from us the keys to the gate”

Who will protect Hungary's border then?

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FM Szijjártó: Sargentini Report adopted through voting fraud

The government is currently examining avenues for legal redress

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Ahmed H.

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Syrian man charged with “acts of terrorism” sentenced to five years in prison

Sep 21, 2018

Ahmed H charged with illegal border crossing and complicity in “acts of terrorism”

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Ahmed H has appeal trial set for September 20th

Jun 12, 2018

Ahmed H was sentenced in the Szeged Court of Justice in March to seven years in prison and expelled from Hungary for 10 years

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Hey, POLITICO Europe, you left out some important details – like really important details – about the Ahmed H. incident

Mar 06, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

When POLITICO Europe published that story this morning on the retrial of a man facing charges in Hungary after an attack on Hungarian border guards, the reporter and editors left a lot out of the story.

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Hungary's supreme court finds dismissal in Ahmed H case unlawful

Nov 15, 2017

Hungary’s supreme court has ruled that a Szeged appeals court’s dismissal of a first-instance ruling and order of a retrial in the Ahmed H case is unlawful

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Blame Hungary

Jun 23, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

It was one of the most heinous crimes from the dark days of the migrant crisis in 2015. The trial began this week in Hungary of eleven men charged in the deaths of 71 migrants, victims of human traffickers, found in an abandoned refrigerator truck in August of that year.

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European left-wing groups rallying to the cause of a convicted terrorist

Jun 16, 2017

European left-wing groups have decided to side with Ahmed H. They are attempting to place him on a pedestal, and want to present him as the idealized refugee

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