🚨🇭🇺 HUNGARY: MOTHER OF THREE HELD IN PRISON WITHOUT A CONVICTION — SAYS SHE IS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY AGAINST A POLITICIAN TO GET OUT 💬 “And the goal? Testify against any politician, and my situation gets resolved.” Veronika Varga-Bajusz, a former conservative government official and mother of three, has sent a message from prison. Her husband, Norbert Varga, shared her letter publicly. She remains in pre-trial detention, although she has not been convicted of any crime. She was brought to court in handcuffs, on a restraint leash, escorted by armed officers. The case concerns Hungary’s National Cultural Fund (NKA), a state fund that provides public money to support artists, cultural projects and institutions. Authorities are investigating alleged misuse of these grants. Veronika is suspected of “psychological aiding and abetting” — meaning allegedly encouraging or supporting someone else’s wrongdoing. Yet Veronika says she reviewed roughly 2,000 pages of evidence and found no witness testimony connecting her to the disputed grants. Her most disturbing claim is that her situation could be resolved if she testified against a politician. She also describes the heartbreak of being separated from her three children: 💬 “I know how it tears their little souls apart, day after day, that their mother has been put in prison.” The echoes of Hungary’s darkest communist years in the 1950s are impossible to ignore.