Hungarian prosecutors have called for Budapest’s opposition mayor to be fined for boosting attendance at a pride parade last year, which police had banned under newly enacted legislation.
The event occurred in June, months after Hungary amended laws to subject public assemblies to an existing ban on exposing minors to LGBTQ-themed content. Gergely Karacsony, in office since 2019, rejected the ban and urged supporters to show up.
District prosecutors filed the charges, the Prosecutor General’s office announced Wednesday. It noted Karacsony did not seek legal recourse to overturn the ban but instead released video statements encouraging its…
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