Hungarian Jewish leaders protested a call by a far-right party to retry the case of the nation’s wartime prime minister. The leaders said they were “deeply shocked” after the Hungarian Justice and Life Party questioned the sentence imposed on Laszlo Bardossy, who was executed in 1946 for war crimes.
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