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Independent lawmaker Akos Hadhazy organised another demonstration for the withdrawal of the amendment to the assembly law in Budapest on Tuesday.
Protesters allied to the opposition who held what was initially a legal demonstration in front of Parliament peeled off and marched towards the Prime Minister's office in the Castle District on Thursday afternoon, and once they crossed Chain Bridge, police closed it down, citing the obstruction of traffic and the fact that the protesters had not secured permission to march.
Demonstrators demanding the withdrawal of a recent amendment to the law on the right of assembly blocked Liberty Bridge in Budapest on Tuesday evening.
A demonstration for legalising marijuana held on Easter Sunday "is a shameless provocation", Laszlo Horvath, the government commissioner for eliminating drug dealing, has said, vowing that the protest would be "the last" of its kind.
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