Strasbourg Court: Hungary’s Opposition MPS’ Rights Harmed
- 17 Sep 2014 9:00 AM
The Hungarian parliament harmed free speech by fining the opposition LMP and PM parties for acts of protest in the chamber, the European Court of Human Rights ruled. In May last year PM’s Gergely Karácsony and Péter Szilágyi were handed fines for putting up a sign which read “(you) steal, deceive, lie!” to protest against tobacco concessions and government-initiated changes to the law on the freedom of information.
Later in the same month, Dávid Dorosz and Rebeka Szabó of PM were fined for holding another sign “National Tobacco Mafia”.
In June last year, three LMP deputies had a third of their salaries docked at the initiative of the parliamentary speaker László Kövér for holding up a sign in protest against the passage of the land law.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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