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Budapest’s defiant mayor questioned by police about Pride

Budapest mayor questioned by police for organizing banned LGBTQ+ Pride event
The liberal mayor of Hungary's capital was questioned by police Friday over accusations of helping organize an LGBTQ+ Pride event that the country's right-wing populist government had sought to ban. The Pride march in Budapest on June 28 was the largest event of its kind in the country's history,
Defiant Budapest Mayor Questioned Over Pride March
Budapest mayor Mayor Gergely Karacsony was defiant as he arrived for questioning over the city's 30th Pride parade that attracted a record turnout despite an official ban.
Hungarian police questions Budapest mayor over role in banned LGBTQ+ Pride march
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his party have insisted Pride, a celebration of LGBTQ+ visibility and struggle for equal rights, is a violation of children’s rights to moral and spiritual development.
Budapest mayor questioned by police for defying government to hold Pride parade
Hungary’s government has tried to roll back LGBTQ+ rights, including by banning the Budapest Pride parade in June.
Budapest police to question city's mayor for organising Pride march
Police summoned opposition Mayor Gergely Karacsony to give a statement as a suspect for organising the 30th Budapest Pride parade despite an official ban, the mayor's office told AFP on Thursday."The mayor was summoned as a suspect by the investigating authority and will be questioned next week,
Budapest Mayor Questioned as Suspect Linked to Organization of Budapest Pride
Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest, has been questioned as a suspect in connection with the organization of the Budapest Pride event in Budapest, according to a report by news wire MTI.
Budapest mayor questioned by police over banned pride march
Budapest's mayor has been questioned by police as a suspect in helping to organise a banned LGBTQ march in the city. The event took place on June 28 despite warnings of potential legal repercussions by Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose government passed a law earlier this year banning the event.
Budapest’s defiant mayor questioned by police about Pride: ‘Neither freedom nor love can be banned’
Budapest’s mayor Gergely Karácsony has been questioned by police over accusations he helped organise a banned Pride event in the city. The right-wing Fidesz party, led by Viktor Orbán who has been the European country’s Prime Minister since 2010,
Budapest mayor says probe of banned Pride march sees him as a 'suspect'
The mayor of Budapest said on Thursday he had become a "suspect" in a police investigation targeting the organisers of an LGBTQ+ rights rally that turned into an anti-government protest last month.
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Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party enacted the ban, but Budapest’s mayor allowed the event to go on. The police sat on the sidelines. By Andrew Higgins Reporting from Budapest A government ...
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Around 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's ...
Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and heavy fines to participate in the 30th annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed in March by Orbán's right-wing populist ...