A Japanese mother’s tragedy
Report by Krisztina Les, Patent Association.
A burned female body was found on 29th of January in an apartment in Budapest. The victim, a Japanese woman who had been living in Budapest for years and raising her two young children alone, sought legal assistance from PATENT Association, a Hungarian women’s right organisation, in 2023. She was terrified of her ex-husband, who had abused her for a long time, and wanted to return to her home country, Japan, with her children. However, the father did not consent to this, despite not residing in Hungary himself. So, she was stuck in Hungary.
Picture by József Tinn
