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With the 2026 parliamentary elections approaching, the annual Budapest Pride Parade seemed poised to become the next fight ...
Police in Budapest announced Monday that they will not initiate any legal proceedings against participants of the Pride ...
Hungarian police said that they will not prosecute marchers in the Budapest Pride parade, despite the event being banned. This year's Pride attracted a record crowd, with organizers reporting over ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Budapest's mayor Gergely Karácsony has said that tomorrow's Budapest Pride parade will go ahead as planned despite a ban by Hungarian authorities.
With the support of the city’s liberal mayor, organizers of Budapest Pride took to the streets in defiance of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s effort to ban the event.
Budapest’s massive pride parade this year was momentous. It also highlighted the geographic and political obstacles facing ...
However, the extraordinary events of the weekend, after his government’s attempts to ban Budapest’s annual pride parade, suggest a new vulnerability. Organizers had hoped that maybe 40,000 people ...