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February 10th, 2009

Supreme Court sentences retired officer for 1956 shooting

By MTI

Hungary’s Supreme Court has handed retired colonel Janos Korbely a five year prison sentence for his role in a volley fire in Tata (NW) during the anti-Soviet uprising in 1956, Hungarian public television MTV reported on Monday.

The ruling reinforces an earlier sentence and overrides a decision made by the European Court of Human Rights in 2008, which said that Korbely was guilty of homicide rather than of a crime against humanity, when he had given the order to shoot the leader of a group of insurgents.

According to the Supreme Court, Korbely’s order to open fire was a crime against humanity, which – as opposed to homicide – never becomes superannuated.

One person died and two were injured in the volley fire.

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