*** Hungarians protest Zundel incarceration in Germany ***

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

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TO ALL:

You see what kind of media a handful of protesters can generate?  Get 
ready for a Zundel  Protest in your respective country ON MAY 6!

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HUNGARIANS PROTEST ERNT ZUNDEL'S IMPRISONMENT IN GERMANY

The protest took place in Budapest on Saturday 16th of April as I 
mentioned earlier. Three different TV channels reported on it on 
Saturday evening in the news and according to the news reports the 
numbers of those who attended varied from 40 to 150 depending on 
which channel you were watching. One of the organizers was selling 
their newspaper and he has sold exactly 230 papers, so it is not an 
exaggeration to estimate that the real number of attendance to be 250.

On Monday three daily newspapers also reported on it, of course all 
the news reports and articles were negative calling them extremist 
right wing and neo-nazis.

A couple of days prior, the German ambassador stated that they would 
not accept the petition and they didn't even come out and talk or 
listen to what the protesters had to say. The organizers therefore 
mailed the petition to them on Monday.

The police arrived in large force and protected the embassy and with 
steel bar fences they surrounded the whole building. The protesters 
carried over 20 placards in Hungarian, German and some in English, 
demanding freedom for Zundel and for dismantling the anti-free speech 
laws in Germany etc...

The last three years the 16th of April has been officially announced 
as The Holocaust Day, so therefore all over Budapest the Jewish 
community and established officials unveiled a new statue paying 
tribute to the so-called victims of the Holocaust. Government 
officials paled [paid?] their respects.

A couple of days prior to the protest one of the chief rabbis of 
Hungary was protesting to the police as to why they allowed this 
"anti-holocaust" protest to take place on Saturday and complaining 
that their followers cannot organize a counter protest because it is 
on a Saturday, their Holy day. The police however stated that they 
would not allow a counter-protest for fear of fighting between the 
two groups.

Throughout the whole protest there was no trouble, and the speakers 
reflected on Zundel's life, his ongoing struggle and his imprisonment 
as well as the German Liberal dictatorship and its anti-free speech 
laws. They ended the protest by playing the German national anthem 
and the Hungarian national anthem.

Please click on the following link 
<http://index.hu/politika/belfold/0416hlcstdnr/?print>http://index.hu/politika/belfold/0416hlcstdnr/?print 
for some pictures which are on a hostile Internet site which 
portrayed the protest in a negative light with a tone of 
insignificance. I have been promised by the organizers that they will 
give me their own pictures and when I receive them I will send it to 
you. I am also attaching the text of the petition in German.

(Please note:  The German-language text to the German Ambassador to 
the Chancellor of Germany will be posted shortly on the Zundelsite at 
www.zundelsite.org)

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