The majority of the 500 Rumanian Jews who were returned recently from Hungary to Rumania after crossing the border illegally were sentenced a Rumanian court in Timisoara to various terms of imprisonment, it was reported today by an eye-witness who arrived here.
The reason given by the Hungarian authorities for the expulsions, the witness ?id, was a request by the Rumanian Foreign Ministry. When the JDC and other groups appealed to Minister of Interior Laszlo Rajk to intervene, he said that there was ?thing he could do. The border is now “hermetically sealed,” the informant reported.
The arrests, he said, followed a raid by Hungarian police on a refugee hostel ? Budapest. After being transferred to the Central Prison, the refugees were placed ## open railway cars, he alleged, without food or blankets and were manhandled by their guards.
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