Fines theme
Which Hungarian right-wing sympathizer will be the first to ask themselves why the opposition seems to have organized a fundraising for care places for citizens with HBTQ diagnoses?
Record numbers defied the pride ban in Hungary. Up to 200,000 participated in Saturday’s pride parade in Budapest, according to the organizers. For the first time, a pride parade is being held in Budapest after Hungary passed a law that prohibits gatherings organized by LGBTQI groups. The government claims the law is intended to protect the country’s children – as homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgender identities are equated with pedophilia.The penalty for participating in the parade is fines, and the organizers can be sentenced to up to a year in prison. – There is concern that facial recognition will be used. The intention is to simply impose fines on the participants, so perhaps facial recognition will be an important part of that, says SVT's correspondent Cecilia Gralde. See the article on SVT News and the segment on SVT News.
Record numbers defied Hungary's pride ban. Record numbers – up to 200,000, according to the organizers – defied the Hungarian government's ban and marched in Saturday's pride parade in Budapest. The organizers speak of a historic turnout and estimate the participation to be between 180,000 and 200,000. "There has never been so many participants at Budapest Pride before," says the event's chief organizer Viktoria Radvanyi to the news agency AFP. See the segment on SVT Nyheter.