NGOs take legal action against the Sovereignty Protection Act Published at 27.12.2024 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation negative court ruling protest public vilification censorship Read more
Investigative media and transparency watchdog targeted by Sovereignty Protection Office Published at 14.08.2024 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI protest public vilification political interference bureaucratic restriction access to info. law HRD prosecuted environmental rights Read more
Outrage over clemency scandal and corruption allegations spark massive protests Published at 30.05.2024 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI protest prevention of protest political interference restrictive law censorship access to info. law Read more
Media and CSOs fear targeting as "sovereignty" law passed Published at 16.01.2024 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: funding restriction LGBTI negative court ruling protest public vilification political interference restrictive law censorship Read more
Pro-Palestine rallies banned in Budapest, "sovereignty protection law" announced targeting government critics Published at 11.11.2023 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: funding restriction LGBTI negative court ruling protest prevention of protest censorship Read more
Students tear-gassed, prosecuted for protesting education law Published at 04.08.2023 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling LGBTI protest disruption youth intimidation positive CS development labour rights criminal defamation protest public vilification internet restriction censorship protestor(s) detained Read more
Press freedom continues to decline Published at 18.04.2023 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling LGBTI labour rights protest restrictive law Read more
Teachers fired for civil disobedience; teenager faces backlash over critical speech about Orbán government Published at 17.02.2023 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on journalist protest youth intimidation harassment labour rights censorship Read more
Economic crisis & teachers’ conditions spark mass protests as FIDESZ government continues its battle for EU funds Published at 11.11.2022 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling LGBTI women harassment labour rights protest public vilification prevention of protest censorship non state actors Read more
Journalists visiting foreign media under surveillance Published at 18.08.2022 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: bureaucratic restriction labour rights protest public vilification censorship surveillance LGBTI harassment attack on journalist restrictive law Read more
Orbán government secures landslide victory spelling further concerns for civic freedoms Published at 07.04.2022 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling LGBTI harassment negative court ruling protest prevention of protest political interference bureaucratic restriction Read more
Government cements further power over media; effects of anti-LGBTQI law seen Published at 06.12.2021 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship positive court ruling LGBTI funding restriction harassment protest internet restriction political interference surveillance Read more
Orbán government alleged to have used Pegasus spyware on investigative journalists Published at 18.08.2021 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: protest public vilification funding restriction LGBTI censorship surveillance negative court ruling Read more
A ‘dark day’ for LGBTI rights in Hungary, leading to calls for urgent EU action Published at 06.07.2021 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI restrictive law intimidation censorship protest public vilification Read more
Orbán’s government targets LGBTI rights amid the pandemic and bans protests Published at 06.04.2021 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling LGBTI funding restriction protest public vilification restrictive law bureaucratic restriction censorship non state actors Read more
Unabated attacks on LGBTI rights amid the pandemic Published at 03.12.2020 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: youth LGBTI restrictive law harassment censorship protest Read more
Further erosion of media and academic freedom; attacks on LGBTI-friendly children’s book Published at 26.10.2020 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI protest disruption youth harassment positive CS development protest censorship non state actors Read more
EU court finds that NGO foreign funding law violates EU law, independent media under threat Published at 02.07.2020 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling political interference intimidation censorship protestor(s) detained protest Read more
Concerns over democratic decline, with transgender rights and freedom of speech under attack Published at 05.06.2020 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling LGBTI restrictive law harassment censorship labour rights protest Read more
‘Corona virus bill’ seeks to erode freedom of expression even further Published at 27.03.2020 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling censorship political interference restrictive law Read more
Hungary: European Courts of Justice take on restrictive laws Published at 12.02.2020 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: funding restriction LGBTI refugees and migrants restrictive law censorship protest Read more
