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Video Opinion: Hungary Muzzles Journalists Via Coronavirus Emergency Powers

• 11 May 2020 7:38 AM

Reporters feel intimidated, according to German DW News, and 'Rights Groups' fear that emergency legislation enacted in Hungary 'to strengthen the power of the Prime Minister during the coronavirus pandemic' are being used to muzzle journalists working for the few independent media organizations left in the country as they try to report on COVID-19. 

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Deutsche Welle in English

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