LIVING TOMBS
PRISONERS IN RUMANIA BUDAPEST. Nov. 12. Messages received bore from BucAiest report appalling treatment of Hungarian political prisoners in Rumania. H is stated they are confined in veiniin infested, ill-ventilated cells less than ,4tt. wide, resembling living tombs. According to ' the reports, six. Hungarian political prisoners, whose names, are given, appealed to the governor ol .Jilava prison for better food and treatment The result was that they .were removed to still filthier and darker cells, manacled band and foot, and placed on 45 days’ bread' and water. _ ,\( Yh<‘ conclusion of this disciplinary treatment, it- is stated, they were brought before a military court on a c harge of inciting other prisoners lo re volt. The president of the court. Col (jav'ril Malinoscu, sentenced them lo a I'm I her year’s imprisonment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 5
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