Budapest Pride
Yesterday’s formal decision by Budapest police to ban an LGBTQI march in Budapest on June 1, gives away the lie to the claim by Hungary's EU minister, János Bóka, that “there is no such thing in Hungary as a Pride ban”, said Amnesty International Hungary, Háttér Society, Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Rainbow Mission Foundation (Budapest Pride’s foundation), and Hungarian Civil Liberties Union.
Hungarian human rights organisations Amnesty International, Háttér Society, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee urge the European Commission to launch an infringement procedure addressing the entirety of the new changes for breaches of EU law.
Five men were found guilty of violence against a member of a community for attacking three participants of the Budapest Pride on July 6, 2013.
Extreme right-wing activist found guildy of committing a hate crime for insulting participants of the Budapest Pride in 2012.
In the suit launched by Háttér Society and the Helsinki Committee the second instance court also found that the police ban amounted to discrimination and harassment.
On January 16, 2014 the Metropolitan Court of Budapest found that the Budapest Police committed direct discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation when banning the Budapest Pride March in 2012. The case was launched by Háttér Society and an individual, who were represented in court by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. The decision is appealable.
