Pro-democracy Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in high-profile national security trial
BBC World →The 78-year-old UK citizen was convicted of lobbying foreign governments to impose sanctions on HK and China.
JEWISH JOURNALIST AND AID ADVOCATE SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS HARD LABOR.
Budapest (By I. J. P. B.)—A Jewish journalist and lawyer, Ludwig Magyar, has been sentenced to ten years at hard labor in prison for (according to the wording of the sentence) "his soothing attitude and his ungrateful demeanor toward the country which gave him the opportunity to make his living." The lawyer's punishment was
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Hungary (Numerus clausus)
The Hungarian numerus clausus was introduced in 1920. The policy is often seen as the first anti-Jewish act of twentieth century Europe. Its aim was to restrict the number of Jews to 6 percent, which was their proportion in Hungary at that time; the rate of Jewish students was approximately 15% in the 1910s.
Wikipedia →History of the Jews in Hungary
Anti-Jewish measures — Anti-Jewish Laws (1938–1942)
Starting in 1938, Hungary under Miklós Horthy passed a series of anti-Jewish measures in emulation of Germany's Nuremberg Laws. The 'First Jewish Law' (May 29, 1938) restricted the number of Jews in each commercial enterprise, in the press, among physicians, engineers and lawyers to twenty percent. The 'Second Jewish Law' (May 5, 1939), for the first time, defined Jews racially: individuals with two, three or four Jewish-born grandparents were declared Jewish.
Wikipedia →The Holocaust in Hungary
German occupation of Hungary — Invasion
On 18 March 1944, Adolf Hitler summoned Horthy to a conference in Austria, where he demanded greater acquiescence from Hungary. While he was at the conference, German tanks rolled into Budapest, and on 23 March the government of Döme Sztójay was installed. During the four days' interregnum following the German occupation, the Ministry of the Interior was placed in the hands of László Endre and László Baky, right-wing politicians known for their hostility to Jews.
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