Leader of Hungarian uprising dies
Bela Kiraly, one of the military leaders of Hungary's short-lived anti-Soviet revolution in 1956, has died at 97.
Mr Kiraly served in the Hungarian army during the Second World War and later led its military academy.
A brief statement from the country's defence ministry provided no other details but daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet reported that Mr Kiraly died on Sunday in Budapest.
In 1952, he was sentenced to death on trumped-up conspiracy charges by Hungary's Stalinist regime, but the sentence was later commuted to life in prison.
The October 1956 revolution, aimed at overthrowing the communist regime, lasted less than two weeks before it was crushed.
