Police Prohibition of Budapest Pride Marsh in Hungary, but the mayor promises to move on

Police banned the annual March Budapest later this month later this month, challenging a challenging response from Liberal Mayor Gergili Karakoni.

“The Budapest City Hall will organize a Budapest march for pride as a local event on June 28, a period,” the mayor promised.

This is the latest turn in the confrontation of cats and mice, which is published by the government of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, supported by City Police, against the LGBTQ Community of Hungary and his supporters, with some legal supporters of the courts.

Pride’s annual hike has been doubted since Orban announced in February that it would not be held this year and then a law to restrict gatherings was passed if they violated the child’s protection laws for public promotion of homosexuality.

Karacsony said the police were not entitled to ban a “day of freedom” organized by the Municipal Council as an umbrella event for pride, as it did not fall within the rules of freedom of the assembly.

Tens of thousands of people from Hungary and abroad are expected to participate in the event of June 28.

“They may also try to ban a procession of unicorns,” the mayor wrote on Facebook.

According to the new March Act, adopted in March, all identified by the police as participants using a person’s recognition software can be fined between 14 and 420 pounds.

“The protection of children goats all other laws. And in this spirit we have changed the laws, we are making politics and we will act in the future,” Fidesz Communications Tamas Menczer told News Portal 444.

“Pride has nothing to do with the freedom of expression or the freedom of the assembly … Pride is a festival, a festival of a particular sexual community that is not suitable to be seen by children.”

Victor Orban announced in his annual speech on the state of the nation last February that Pride’s organizers “should not worry this year.” This was followed by the next month by a law limiting the right to the freedom of the Assembly, if it was disintegrated by the Child Protection Act in 2021.

To circumvent the Rainbow Mission Foundation, which organizes pride in Hungary and other human rights groups, announced a series of events on June 28 in solidarity with Pride.

But they made the authorities guess which event would celebrate the pride itself. Police attempts to ban these events were thwarted by the High Court of Hungary, Curia, in two decisions so far.

The Mayor of Budapest then appeared on June 16 with the Budapest Pride spokesman, Mate Hegedus, in a joint video on Facebook, announcing the Day of Freedom, with events from early morning until late evening.

The central event had to be a procession through the city and the event “Not Pride”, writes the mayor of the police.

“There will be no trucks, no dancers, no sexuality in any shape.” The goal, he supports, was simply “to make the nation’s capital free.”

This is what the police are now trying to prevent, on the grounds that minor observers can witness the procession, regardless of the age of those who actually participate, how they are dressed or what banners they wear.

This would violate the Child Protection Act, according to the Budapest Police Chief Tamas Terdyk in a 16 -page document issued by the police, justifying the ban.

So what will actually happen on June 28?

Human Rights Group Hungarian Helsinki Commission (HHC), has advised anyone who will go on the day to refuse to pay Any fines on the spot.

They propose to anyone who receives a notification by mail to request the right of appeal to the police or court, if this fails.

The more people participate, the less the likelihood is the police trying to try this, HHC claims, as it can create a massive lag for both the police and the courts.