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Video & Photos: Huge Demo Against 'Anti-NGO' Bill
- 13 Apr 2017 1:35 AM
- current affairs
A demonstration was held in Budapest’s Heroes Square on Wednesday afternoon in protest against a bill concerning civil organisations, which they view as stigmatising some of those groups. The protest was organised by the Civilizáció group and supported by about 100 others including Amnesty International, the Eötvös Károly Institute, Greenpeace Hungary, Háttér, the Krétakör Foundation, the ...
Dog Adoption Day, 1st April
- 30 Mar 2017 12:50 PM
- current affairs
Choose your new best friend. If you are an expat and would like to enjoy the warmth, fun and loving care you can get from our canine friends, then go along to Illatos úti Állatmenhely and check some of these beautiful dogs that this place has for adoption.
Prime Minister Visits Victims Of Budapest Blast
- 3 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has visited the two police officers injured in a recent explosion in Budapest in the company of Interior Minister Sándor Pintér, photos published on the police.hu website show. In an interview broadcast on public news channel M1 earlier, Orbán said he had instructed Pintér to “hunt [the perpetrator] down” and “extract out of him” what he did and why. He added that ...
Human Rights Watch: Hungary: Failing To Protect Vulnerable Refugees
- 20 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary is keeping many of the most vulnerable asylum seekers stranded on its border in poor conditions for weeks while they wait to enter the country and file their claims, Human Rights Watch said today. Some said that border officials had used excessive force against them.
Student Camp Rapist Sentenced To Nine Years
- 23 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A man aged forty was sentenced to nine years imprisonment in a final ruling for raping a student at ELTE University’s student camp in Fonyódliget, in western Hungary, in August 2014. The Pécs court of appeals approved last November’s ruling by the Kaposvár court to lengthen a seven-and-a-half-year sentence issued by the Fonyód district court last June.
Kúria Rules In Favour Of Police Privacy
- 28 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Kúria has decided that the right to privacy of police officers outweighs the fact that they exercise public power, upholding the argument that their faces must be covered in press photos. Earlier the Constitutional Court ruled that the faces of police officers need not be covered, as their role as agents of public power outweighs their right to privacy.
Editor Apologises For Hungarian Website Article
- 30 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Gábor G. Fodor, chief editor of website 888.hu, apologised yesterday for an article published January 23 that reproduced nude photos of Socialist president József Tóbiás’s wife from the 1990s. “I made a mistake as I allowed in the heat of political debates to offend a man and his family. We crossed a line. I apologise for that. I have learned from it. I will not let it happen again.”
Xpat Opinion: 888 Condemned For Insulting Post On MSZP Chairman’s Wife
- 27 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Pro-government columnists condemn a pro-government news site targeting young audiences for publishing a tasteless piece which called MSZP leader Tóbiás’ wife a "masturbation device".
Gulyás Disowns Hungarian Pro-Fidesz Website
- 26 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Fidesz MP Gergely Gulyás distanced the party from 888.hu after the website published nude photos of Tímea Rába, the wife of Socialist president József Tóbiás, from her days as a beauty queen in the 1990s. “We should make it clear in the spirit of conservative values that people of good taste cannot have anything to do with 888.hu,” Gulyás said in a statement as he expressed solidarity with Tóbiás ...
Video & Photos: Huge Demo Against 'Anti-NGO' Bill
- 13 Apr 2017 1:35 AM
- current affairs
A demonstration was held in Budapest’s Heroes Square on Wednesday afternoon in protest against a bill concerning civil organisations, which they view as stigmatising some of those groups. The protest was organised by the Civilizáció group and supported by about 100 others including Amnesty International, the Eötvös Károly Institute, Greenpeace Hungary, Háttér, the Krétakör Foundation, the ...
Dog Adoption Day, 1st April
- 30 Mar 2017 12:50 PM
- current affairs
Choose your new best friend. If you are an expat and would like to enjoy the warmth, fun and loving care you can get from our canine friends, then go along to Illatos úti Állatmenhely and check some of these beautiful dogs that this place has for adoption.
Prime Minister Visits Victims Of Budapest Blast
- 3 Oct 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has visited the two police officers injured in a recent explosion in Budapest in the company of Interior Minister Sándor Pintér, photos published on the police.hu website show. In an interview broadcast on public news channel M1 earlier, Orbán said he had instructed Pintér to “hunt [the perpetrator] down” and “extract out of him” what he did and why. He added that ...
Human Rights Watch: Hungary: Failing To Protect Vulnerable Refugees
- 20 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary is keeping many of the most vulnerable asylum seekers stranded on its border in poor conditions for weeks while they wait to enter the country and file their claims, Human Rights Watch said today. Some said that border officials had used excessive force against them.
Student Camp Rapist Sentenced To Nine Years
- 23 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A man aged forty was sentenced to nine years imprisonment in a final ruling for raping a student at ELTE University’s student camp in Fonyódliget, in western Hungary, in August 2014. The Pécs court of appeals approved last November’s ruling by the Kaposvár court to lengthen a seven-and-a-half-year sentence issued by the Fonyód district court last June.
Kúria Rules In Favour Of Police Privacy
- 28 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Kúria has decided that the right to privacy of police officers outweighs the fact that they exercise public power, upholding the argument that their faces must be covered in press photos. Earlier the Constitutional Court ruled that the faces of police officers need not be covered, as their role as agents of public power outweighs their right to privacy.
Editor Apologises For Hungarian Website Article
- 30 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Gábor G. Fodor, chief editor of website 888.hu, apologised yesterday for an article published January 23 that reproduced nude photos of Socialist president József Tóbiás’s wife from the 1990s. “I made a mistake as I allowed in the heat of political debates to offend a man and his family. We crossed a line. I apologise for that. I have learned from it. I will not let it happen again.”
Xpat Opinion: 888 Condemned For Insulting Post On MSZP Chairman’s Wife
- 27 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Pro-government columnists condemn a pro-government news site targeting young audiences for publishing a tasteless piece which called MSZP leader Tóbiás’ wife a "masturbation device".
Gulyás Disowns Hungarian Pro-Fidesz Website
- 26 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Fidesz MP Gergely Gulyás distanced the party from 888.hu after the website published nude photos of Tímea Rába, the wife of Socialist president József Tóbiás, from her days as a beauty queen in the 1990s. “We should make it clear in the spirit of conservative values that people of good taste cannot have anything to do with 888.hu,” Gulyás said in a statement as he expressed solidarity with Tóbiás ...