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Justice Delayed

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has located an alleged war criminal from World War 2, in Australia. 87-year-old Karoly Zentai is accused of murdering a Jewish teenager in Budapest during the Holocaust while he served in the pro-Nazi Hungarian army. Hungary has been seeking his extradition since 2005, and Zentai has avoided extradition before. Now, the Australian Supreme Court has upheld the country's extradition processes and it appears he will go before a magistrate for an extradition hearing this August. Zentai had been one of the targets of the Wiesenthal Center's Operation Last Chance, which seeks to bring surviving Nazi war criminals to justice before the opportunity to do so is gone.

 

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Arthur Traldi

Arthur Traldi is an attorney in Pennsylvania. Before the Pennsylvania courts, Arthur worked for the Bosnian State Court's Chamber for War Crimes and Organized Crime. His law degree is from Georgetown University, and his undergraduate from the College of William and Mary.

Area of Focus
International Law; Human Rights; Bosnia

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