Hungary Confiscates 2 Dissidents’ Passports
Associated Press
VIENNA —
Two Hungarian dissident artists’ passports were confiscated for three years because they gave interviews to Western radio stations on a recent trip abroad, emigres reported Tuesday.
The London-based Hungarian October information service, a twice-weekly news bulletin on events in Hungary, identified the two men as Tamas Molnar and Peter Bokros, both members of a dissident arts club, who visited West Germany, Paris and London in November and December.
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