A portrait of a far-right judge who served Hungary’s fascist wartime government has quietly been returned to the walls of the country’s highest court. One senior judge told the Guardian he was appalled by the decision to hang a portrait of fascist sympathiser Jen? Szemák in the supreme court, saying that it sent “a strong symbolic message regarding the current political climate in Hungary”. Szemák led Hungary’s Kúria, its highest court, for just under six months during 1944-45, after a coup by the violently antisemitic fascist Arrow Cross party. During this dark period, he was widely feared and led trials...
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