Laszlo Berdo v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

McALLISTER, Senior Circuit Judge.

This case arises out of the Hungarian Uprising against the Russian Military Occupation Forces in 1956.

Laszlo Berdo, petitioner herein, was twenty years old at the time. He joined thousands of other students and citizens as a street fighter against the Russian troops and tanks, in Budapest; and he now seeks asylum in the United States as a defector from the Hungarian Communist government.

Berdo’s petition, more specifically described hereafter, can be designated as one for asylum and is opposed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service on the ground that…