Hungarian Communist sentenced for wearing red star

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A senior member of the Hungarian Communist
Workers' Party has received a one-year suspended sentence for wearing a
red star, the communist symbol which is banned under Hungarian law.

State news agency MTI said Attila Vajna, who is deputy chairman of the
fringe party, was sentenced by the Municipal Court in Budapest
Wednesday for wearing the star at a demonstration two years ago.

Sporting communist or Nazi symbols is forbidden in Hungary. The red
star was banned after Hungary threw off communism in 1989.

The sentence comes three days after the Worker's Party voted to change
its name to incorporate the word "communist."