Saturday, November 30, 2013

One more week?

http://forum.index.hu/Article/showArticle?t=9015567
Navrasics has granted two more weeks to Tobin, after consultations with the Zoltai family.  Will Mr. Tobin finally set foot on Hungarian soil on Dec 5?

Friday, November 8, 2013

Ciaran Tobin wants to think

Ciaran Tobin has asked for two weeks to 'think' about whether he enters his prison cell in Hungary, Origo reports (as we know he'd be transferred to an Irish prison shortly after.)

The question is what was he doing for the past 13 years?

Hungarian authorities have granted a 'last deadline' until midnight November 21, 2013 for Tobin to arrive in Hungary to be arrested and to commence his prison term.  Click on title to read the article on Origo.


http://www.origo.hu/itthon/20131108-idot-kert-az-ir-gazolo.html?sec-2

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Mr. Zoltai on Duna TV


From the Irish Press


Ciaran Tobin case nears closure (or so we hope)


"Public Administration and Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics said at a joint press conference with the girls’ father last Friday that the Irish authorities had accepted his assurances Francis Ciaran Tobin would be allowed to transfer to an Irish jail. But he must first hand himself over to the Hungarian authorities."
"Navracsics was quoted as saying by state news agency MTI. “We do not insist that he serve out his sentence, or the remainder of it, in Hungary. But we do insist that a crime not go unpunished,” he said."
We are awaiting for Mr. Tobin to make this crucial move, one that is long, long overdue. And at this point, allow us to refer back to one of our earlier posts.

 
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Friday, March 29, 2013

Mr. Navrasics's press conference, March 29, 2013


Highlights:
  • Mr. Tobin has indicated, through Irish Minister of Justice and Equality Alen Shatter, that he's willing to come to Hungary to start his sentence.
  • Mr. Navrasics said he would personally guarantee that - if Mr. Tobin so requests - Mr. Tobin would be allowed to continue his sentence in Ireland.
  • Mr. Navrasics has expressed his hope that, with these steps, this painful case may finally come to a resolution.
  • Mr. Zoltai said this is a case in which everyone, regardless of ideology or national borders, has agreed: crime shall not go unpunished. He thanked the media, the governments and NGOs for all their support during the past 13 years.
Watch Mr. Zoltai speak at 4:22 in the video:
 http://www.kormany.hu/hu/kozigazgatasi-es-igazsagugyi-miniszterium/tarsadalmi-kapcsolatokert-felelos-allamtitkarsag/hirek/tobin-ugy-navracsics-a-leanyfalui-gazolo-kesz-letolteni-bunteteset

Gov't holds press conference


How we got here, cont.: Reding and Tobin


How we got here: Gov't vs Reding


Justice at last?


Ciaran Tobin ready to go to jail: Hungarian media


From the archives: MJELR v. Tobin (No. 2)