Hungary

Jewish Hungarian author gets asylum in Canada

Ákos Kertész, an 80-year-old award-winning Jewish author, has been granted political asylum in Canada because he feared for his life in Hungary as a result of an article he wrote for Amerikai Népszava, a Hungarian-language publication based in New York.

Eva S. Balogh at Hungarian Spectrum has more.

(Hat tip: Karl Pfeifer)