Hungarian Court Quashes U.S. Defectors’ Sentences
<i> Reuters</i>
BUDAPEST, Hungary —
The Supreme Court has quashed death sentences passed in absentia on a Hungarian diplomat and his wife who defected to the United States.
Janos Radvanyi, former interim charge d’affaires in Washington, was convicted in 1968 of treason and refusing to return home. The court said Monday that the verdicts were not proved.
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