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With the 2026 parliamentary elections approaching, the annual Budapest Pride Parade seemed poised to become the next fight ...
Budapest Pride took place as planned despite new anti-Pride laws passed in March and heavy-handed police tactics aimed at ...
Around 100,000 people defied a government ban and police orders on Saturday to march in what organizers called the largest LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hungary's history in an open rebuke of Prime Minister ...
This weekend in Hungary’s capital Budapest, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed the city transform—if only for one brilliant ...
Politically, Orban’s inability to stop Pride from going ahead risks projecting weakness at a time when his Fidesz party is trailing in the polls. However, a heavy-handed police response could also ...
The annual event symbolizes the years-long struggle between Hungary's nationalist government and civil society.
More than 100,000 people marched despite threats of fines and jail for attending the city’s banned LGBTQ Pride parade.
Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán was named "King of European Pride" after his attempts to cancel the festivities increased ...
Thousands of people are set to defy a government ban by participating in the Pride march in Budapest, Hungary's capital, on ...
Police will decide whether the Budapest Pride event can be held even though Budapest's mayor has tried to circumvent a law by organising the march as a municipal event, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ...
Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Hungary's capital, Budapest, as a banned LGBTQ+ rights rally swelled into a ...
Gergely Karácsony, the Green Mayor of Budapest, received an extended standing ovation at the European Parliament for his ...