Career
He was associated with the reformist faction of the Hungarian communist party. During the 1956 Hungarian revolution, he joined the Imre Nagy government as minister of press and propaganda affairs He and Zoltán Tildy held the government"s last press conference on November 3.
He was brought back to Budapest in mid-April 1957.
While in captivity, awaiting trial for treason, Losonczy went on hunger strike. He was scheduled to stand trial as the second accused in the trial of Imre Nagy and his government, but he died while on a hunger strike in prison awaiting trial when his jailers "carelessly pushed a feeding tube down his windpipe.".