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Fmr president gets two years jail for war crimes

(17 Dec 2015) Hungary's former interior minister Bela Biszku has been sentenced to two years in jail, suspended for three years, by a Budapest court on Thursday. The now 94-year-old communist-era official was convicted of war crimes related to reprisals against civilians after the anti-Soviet revolution of 1956. Biszku had been a member of the then ruling Communist Party's ruling interim executive committee, which created armed militias to carry out the repression, including firing indiscriminately into crowds at two rallies in December 1956 — one in Budapest and another in the town of Salgotarjan — killing 49 people. Between March 1957 and September 1961, Biszku was said to have played a role influencing the outcome of the trials of more than 200 revolutionaries who were sentenced to death due to their actions against the Communist regime. He had been sentenced to five years and six months in prison in May 2014. Prosecutors appealed the sentence, asking for life in prison for the 93-year-old former interior minister, while Biszku's defense sought the dismissal of the charges. On Thursday Biszku, the first high-ranking communist official to be tried since Hungary's return to democracy in 1990, was found guilty of charges including denying crimes committed by the communist regime, which, like denying the Holocaust, is illegal in Hungary. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...