Police banning Budapest Pride in Hungary, but mayor returns

Police banned the annual Budapest Pride career in Hungary later this month, prompting a challenging response from the liberal mayor, Gerglie Carxon.

“The Budapest City Hall will organize the Budapest Braid march as a local event on June 28, a period,” the mayor’s pledge.

It is the latest development in the face of the cat and mouse that motivates the government of national Prime Minister Victor Urban Fidan, supported by the city police, against the gay community and its supporters, with some legal support from the courts.

In February, Urban’s annual march has been in doubt since Urban announced that it would not take place this year, then a law was passed to restrict gatherings if they broke the laws of child protection regarding the general promotion of homosexuality.

Karaxon said that the police have no right to ban the “Day of Freedom”, which was organized by the city council as an umbrella to be proud, because it is not subject to the rules of freedom of the association.

Tens of thousands of people from Hungary and abroad will participate in the June 28 event.

“They may also try to block a unicorn procession,” the mayor wrote on Facebook.

Under the new gatherings law, passed in March, all the ones that the police set as partners use face recognition programs can be fined between 14 pounds and 420 pounds.

“Protecting children excels over all other laws. In this spirit, we have changed the laws, we create policy, and we will act in the future,” Fieldsz Communications Tamas Mentas Menczer told News Portal 444.

“Pride has nothing to do with freedom of expression or freedom of assembly … Pride is a festival, a specific sexual community festival, and it is not suitable for seeing it by children.”

In his annual speech to the nation’s condition last February, VikTor Orban announced that pride organizers “do not need to be disturbed this year.” This was followed by the following month according to a law that restricts the right to freedom of assembly, if it makes mistakes in the Child Protection Law 2021.

To circumvent it, the Mission Mission, which regulates Hungary’s pride, and other human rights groups, announced a series of events on June 28 in solidarity.

But they kept the authorities guessing any event that will represent Braid himself. Police attempts to ban these events have been thwarted by the Supreme Court of Hungary, Korea, in two ruling so far.

Then the mayor of Budapest appeared on June 16 with a spokesman for Budapest Pride, Matti Hegedus, in a joint video on Facebook, announcing the Day of Freedom, with events from the early morning until late in the evening.

The mayor wrote to the police that the central event was a procession through the city and the event “not pride.”

“There will be no trucks, dancers, nor gender in any way.” He stressed that the purpose of this is simply “making the nation’s capital empty.”

This is what the police are now trying to prevent, on the basis that pedestrian passers -by may witness the procession, regardless of the age of those who actually participate, or how they wear their clothes, or the banners they hold.

This would violate the Child Protection Law, as the Budapest Tamas Terdik police chief said, in a 16 -page document issued by the police, to justify the ban.

So what will really happen on June 28?

Human Rights Human Rights Group (HHC), Anyone advised to go a day to refuse to pay Any fines in a row.

They suggest anyone receiving a notification by the Post to request the right to appeal a person with the police, or in court if that fails.

The more people participate, the more likely the police try to try to do this, as it argues HHC, because it can create a huge accumulation of both the police and the courts.