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How illiberal governments in Hungary and Poland are learning from each other

Earlier this month, a broadcaster in Hungary came under fire for an advertisement the country’s media council deemed harmful to children. The ad in question, part of a campaign by an LGBT advocacy group, sympathetically depicted “rainbow families” and pushed back against anti-LGBT stereotypes. The media authority, run by members of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party, announced it would take legal action against the broadcaster RTL Hungary for airing the ad. The move was part of a broader strategy to suppress what Orbán and his allies decry as “LGBT ideology” imported from the West, and one in which Hungarian activists see parallels to events in nearby Poland, where the governing right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) and a network of outside groups have increasingly ramped up their own rhetoric and policy against the LGBT community.

How Europe s Illiberal Governments Learn From Each Other

How Europe s Illiberal Governments Learn From Each Other
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Help and you are a criminal : the fight to defend refugee rights at Europe s borders | Refugees

Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 07.09 EST At the offices of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights group in Budapest, András Léderer and his colleagues have a map on which they track every asylum seeker – man, woman or child – who has been physically pushed back by police from the Hungarian border and into the forests of Serbia. The pushbacks are illegal under international law. Yet it is Léderer and his fellow human rights activists who could face arrest and a jail sentence if they went to the border to witness what is happening there. “We aren’t allowed to go to the border,” says Léderer. In 2018 it became illegal to help migrants claim asylum and this includes a ban on visiting the border. “Until the Covid lockdown we went to Serbia to speak to people, to record the stories of violence and humiliation, but we can’t even travel now. People are being beaten, dogs are used against them, their shoes taken, they have cold wate

EU top court advised to strike down Hungary s asylum policy

EU top court advised to strike down Hungary s asylum policy Hungary has restricted access of asylum seekers and pushed most of them back to Serbia (Photo: Freedom House) Brussels, 26. Feb, 07:05 The advisor to the EU s top court urged judges to rule that Hungary broke EU rules on asylum when it passed legislation criminalising assistance to asylum-seekers. The advocate general for the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Athanasios Rantos, on Thursday also said that the 2018 amendments to Hungary s asylum laws, prohibiting asylum-seekers who passed through safe countries - such as Serbia - en route to Hungary to seek international protection, also violated EU law.

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