Géza Losonczy (5 May 1917,

Érsekcsanád Érsekcsanád (Croatian: ''Čanad'' or ''Čenad'') is a village in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. It is named after Csanád, the first head ''(comes)'' of the former Csanád County of Hungary in ...

– 21 December 1957) was a Hungarian journalist and politician. He was associated with the reformist faction of the Hungarian communist party. During the

1956 Hungarian revolution The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 10 November 1956; hu, 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was a countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the Hunga ...

, he joined the

Imre Nagy Imre Nagy (; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (''de facto'' Prime Minister) of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader ...

government as minister of press and propaganda affairs. He and

Zoltán Tildy Zoltán Tildy (; 18 November 1889 – 3 August 1961), was an influential leader of Hungary, who served as prime minister from 1945 to 1946 and president from 1946 until 1948 in the post-war period before the seizure of power by Soviet-backed com ...

held the government's last press conference on November 3. On November 4, as the Soviet army poured into Budapest, he took refuge in the Yugoslavia Embassy, and on November 22, he and the other members of the Imre Nagy group were arrested and transported to Romania. He was brought back to Budapest in mid-April 1957. While in captivity, awaiting trial for treason, Losonczy went on hunger strike. He was scheduled to stand trial as the second accused in the trial of

and his government, but he died while on a hunger strike in prison awaiting trial when his jailers "carelessly pushed a feeding tube down his windpipe."Fryer, Peter (1997). ''Hungarian Tragedy'', p. 10. Index Books: London. .

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