Zsolt Sass, 34, was found guilty late Thursday by U.S. District Judge Dale Cook after a three-day trial.

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But the 28-year-old Briton has been ruled out of Sunday's race and will be replaced by Hungary's Zsolt Baumgartner for Saturday's qualifying.

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The Fidesz government has been in trouble before over allegedly anti-Semitic and anti-Roma comments by its supporters, including Zsolt Bayer, a columnist at the daily Magyar Hirlap.

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"I would call it a march for peace, to show the government it is not alone, he said, and to show the European Union that we don't like how they are treating it, " Zsolt Bayer, a well-known newspaper columnist, told the BBC.

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