The Kuria said in a statement that because it had been unable to rule on the legality of the ban on the June 28 gathering due to an absence of substantiated facts, it had annulled the assembly authority’s order and ordered it to carry out a new procedure in which it fulfilled its obligation to provide a statement of the facts of the case as well as a justification.

The court noted that it had recently rejected the organisers’ challenge of a police decision to ban a march for the equality of LGBTQ people. The organisers later announced a parade for the same day that was set to cover the same route in protest against what they say is a violation of their freedom of assembly.

Arguing that the parade that had previously been banned and Budapest Pride were "precedent assemblies", the authorities rejected the stated purpose of the event and banned it on the grounds that it was in violation of children’s fundamental right related to the protection of their bodily, spiritual and moral development.
 

The organisers then turned to the Kuria, asking that it annul the police ban, as its purpose differed from those of the previously banned events.

The Kuria annulled the police ban and ordered a new procedure, saying the authorities had failed to provide substantial reasoning as to why the march was linked to any other march.

It said the authorities had to determine whether it could be reasonably assumed that the march in question violated the ban set out in Hungary’s child protection law.

The court also ruled that the police ban did not contain sufficient justification as to why the event could violate children’s rights, and the justification it had provided was "contradictory and incomplete".

Karacsony: Issues around Budapest Pride impact whole Europe

The issue of the Budapest Pride is impacting the whole of Europe, "because if a European Union member state can ban the Pride March, no European citizen can feel safe," Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony told an international press conference ahead of the Budapest Pride event scheduled for Saturday.

Karacsony said the issue had become a European one, "this is about how no one may be a second-rate citizen in Hungary, and that Hungarian citizens may not be second-rate citizens in the EU. The municipal council is organising this year's march and we call it Budapest Pride..." he said.

Responding to a question, Karacsony said Saturday's event was "filling the gap of the Budapest Pride but isn't equivalent to it."
 

"People will come to the Pride in their soul, but this is a municipal event, so not subject to the assembly law," Karacsony said.


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