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During a panel discussion at the School of Public Policy at CEU on June 5, a distinguished group of experts discussed two current court cases in Germany and Hungary: the ongoing NSU (National Socialist Underground) trial in Munich, and the 2011-13 trial in Budapest that led to the conviction in August 2013 of Zsolt Petö and Arpad and Istvan Kiss for the murder of six Roma between March 2008 and August 2009. The panel was moderated by Karoly Bard, professor and chair of the Human Rights Program at CEU’s Legal Studies Department.

“Dozens of civil society activists, NGO leaders, journalists, and human rights defenders have been incarcerated in Azerbaijan in recent years. Two of them,” explained Saman Sardar (MPA ’16), “are CEU alumni.” Ilgar Mammadov graduated with a degree in political economy from CEU in 1997. He was an active member of the opposition in Azerbaijan and one of the leaders of the Republicanist Alternative Movement until he was sentenced to seven years in jail in March 2014.