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PERTH, Australia (AP) - An Australian court on Wednesday refused to halt extradition proceedings for an 84-year-old Hungarian immigrant accused of torturing and killing a Jewish teenager during World War II.
Charles Zentai, a Hungarian-born Australian citizen, has been under investigation by Hungary's Foreign Ministry since December 2004 on suspicion of killing Peter Balazs in Budapest in 1944 for failing to wear a yellow star identifying him as a Jew.
The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center alleges that Zentai, then a soldier, tortured and fatally beat the 18-year-old in a Budapest army barracks.
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