Hedvig Malina

Hedvig Malina (Slovak: Hedviga Malinová) (born 1983) is an ethnic Hungarian woman from Horné Mýto (Hungarian: Felsővámos), Slovakia, who gained notoriety 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.

Claim of violence

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.