[PULSE.NG] Ahmed Hamed will be conditionally released from prison on January 19 and then expelled from the country, a court front man in Nyiregyhaza eastern Hungary told the Hungarian newswire MTI.Hamed was accused of using a megaphone to orchestrate violence and throwing stones at Hungarian police to force them to open the border with Serbia in September 2015.
The festivities took place during the peak of Europe's migration crisis, a day after Prime Minister Viktor Orban's hardline anti-immigration government sealed the frontier with a razor wire fence.
During the unrest, several dozen
Around 15 police and 100-150
Hamed, who had lived in EU member Cyprus for around a decade before the clash,
| ...then why was he coming in with the “migrants”? |
His conviction was later annulled over lack of evidence but after a retrial last September he was ordered to serve two-thirds of a five-year jail term - including time already spent in detention - and given an expulsion order from Hungary.
Both the US State Department and the European Parliament called the original 10-year verdict too severe, while Hungarian rights groups said it was the product of a "show trial".