László Rajk Jr.

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László Rajk Jr. (26 January 1949, Budapest – 11 September 2019^[1]) was a Hungarian architect, designer and political activist.

As an architect, he became the member of the Hungarian avantgarde movement. From 1975, he joined the Democratic Opposition, the underground political movement in Hungary, therefore from 1980 he was blacklisted, and was not allowed to work under his own name.^{[citation needed]}

In 1981, with Gábor Demszky (Mayor of Budapest from 1990) he founded the independent, underground AB Publishing House, and ran an illegal bookstore from his apartment called "Samizdat Boutique".^{[citation needed]}

In 1988, he was one of the founders of the Network of Free Initiatives and the liberal party, the Alliance of Free Democrats, and served six years in the Hungarian Parliament after free elections in 1990. Recently he worked as an architect and a production designer for films and taught film architecture at the Hungarian Film Academy in Budapest.^{[citation needed]} Married to Judit Rajk (1991-)

The son of the well known show trial victim, Hungary's foreign minister László Rajk, Rajk Jr. was famous in his own right for political/anti-regime activities.^{[clarification needed][2]}

He was a Chevalier in the Ordre National du Merite, 1999, France.

Over 25 years' experience in building filmsets for international and Hungarian films and documentaries including:

• "HUNGARY archives -- November 1999 (#18)". Retrieved 6 September 2005.
• Kofahajó