Hedvig Malina

Hedvig Malina
Born	1983 Horné Mýto, Czechoslovakia
Citizenship	Czechoslovakia (1983–1992) Slovakia (1993–2013) Hungary (2013–)
Occupation	Student

Hedvig Malina (Slovak: Hedviga Malinová) (born 1983) is an ethnic Hungarian woman from Horné Mýto (Hungarian: Felsővámos), Slovakia, whose situation gained publicity in 2006 for claiming that she was physically assaulted allegedly in a hate crime incident. The incident caused a media sensation and her case has ever since represented a highly controversial and debated issue of Hungary-Slovakia relations.

On 4 April 2014, Slovak attorney general charged Malina with perjury. If found guilty, she would face up to 3 years in prison. Andrej Kiska, the president of Slovakia, said that he would grant Malina pardon in case she's convicted.Malina took her case to the European Court of Human Rights, challenging what she calls the "inhuman and humiliating" conduct of the Slovak officials. She reportedly told the Népszabadság that she was looking for "moral satisfaction." Before the tribunal, the Slovak government offered an agreement to the lawyer of Hedvig Malina, in which the Slovak authorities would apologize for their treatment. On 8 November 2011 the European Court of Human Rights approved the Slovak government's apology.

Malina claims she was severely beaten and robbed on 25 August 2006 in Nitra after speaking Hungarian in public. She claims her attackers wrote "SK (probably Slovakia) without parasites" (Slovak: SK bez parazitov), and "Hungarians to the other side of the Danube" spelled incorrectly (Maďari za Dunai, in Slovak Danube is written as Dunaj) on her clothes.

All Slovak political parties condemned the incident, except the Slovak National Party, led by Ján Slota, which remained silent.

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