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Hungarian court sentences German anti-fascist activist to 8 years for far-right rally assaults
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Maja T., a German anti-fascist activist, accused of assaulting and injuring neo-Nazis in Budapest in Feb. 2023, grimaces as the sentence is read in court in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Feb.4, 2026, at the Budapest-Capital Regional Court. - photo by AP Photo/Denes Erdos
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Hungarian court on Wednesday sentenced a German anti-fascist activist to eight years in prison for taking part in assaults against participants of a far-right rally in February 2023. Authorities allege the 25-year-old defendant, identified only as Maja T., was one of more than a dozen people who assaulted participants in an annual far-right event in Budapest known as the “Day of Honor” — one of the biggest neo-Nazi rallies in Europe which marks the failed attempt by Nazi and allied Hungarian soldiers to break out of Budapest during the Red Army’s siege of the city in 1945. The defendant was accused of attempted aggravated bodily harm causing life-threatening injuries and assault committed as part of a criminal organization.