Hungary's Prime Minister and President paid tribute to those who lost their lives in the crushed 1956 anti-Soviet uprising on the 20th anniversary of the reburial of executed premier Imre Nagy. In the presence of Nagy's family, President Laszlo Solyom and Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai laid a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Budapest's Heroes' Square.

Mr Nagy, Hungary's Prime Minister when the anti-Soviet uprising broke out on October 23, 1956, was seized by the Soviet military and secretly tried for treason and attempting to overthrow the state, after the uprising was crushed by Soviet tanks on November 4.

He was sentenced to death by hanging and executed at the age of 62 on June 16, 1958. Initially buried in an unmarked grave, he was rehabilitated and reburied on June 16, 1989 in Budapest along with four other prominent revolution figures, who were also executed or died before their trial. The reburial, preceded by a massive demonstration of several hundred thousand people around the casket in Heroes' Square, marked a turning point in Hungary's move from communism to market capitalism.