Supporting the Donetsk People’s Republic is illegal in Hungary. (AFP pic)
BUDAPEST: A Hungarian man was handed a two-year suspended jail term on Tuesday for fighting with Russian-backed secessionists in eastern Ukraine in the first ruling of its kind in Hungary.
Krisztián L., 43, was convicted by a judge in Szekszárd for “prohibited recruitment into an armed group participating in armed clashes”.
Explaining the light sentence, the judge said that the crime is relatively unknown in Hungary and that the defendant was unaware that he had broken Hungarian law.
The prosecution lawyer appealed the verdict and is seeking a custodial sentence.
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Source: Free Malaysia Today
