Free Democrats' founding member Rajk dies, aged 70

Laszlo Rajk, an architect and member of Hungary's democratic opposition before the regime change, has died, the family told MTI on Thursday. Rajk, a founding member and lawmaker of Hungary's liberal Alliance of Free Democrats between 1990 and 1996, died on Wednesday, aged 70. According to epiteszforum.hu Rajk died after a short serious illness. Rajk was the son of Laszlo Rajk, a communist politician executed in a Stalinist show trial in October 1949. He was designer of a memorial of the victims of Hungary's 1956 anti-Soviet uprising and revolution in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Rajk was set designer of theatre plays, exhibitions and films including Hungary's Oscar-winning Son of Saul, and was member of the Budapest Municipal Assembly between 2002 and 2006.