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Opposition Reporter Receives Death Threats after Interviewing Viktor Orbán - Hungarian Conservative
Last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an interview on opposition television channel ATV for the first time in 15 years. The interview has been viewed by more than one million people since, becoming the most viewed programme in the channel’s history. However, the reporter, Egon Rónai, has also received a significant number of death threats. ‘Extreme positive and negative reactions on social media have become part of our work. What…
Speaking to a tabloid belonging to a pro-government media group, ATV CEO S. Szilárd Németh claimed that up to a year in prison could be imposed for the article by Élet és Irodalom publicist András Bruck, in which the journalist criticized Egon Rónai in connection with the Orbán interview. However, reviewing the text of the relevant provision of the Criminal Code, it appears that the cited paragraph is not applicable to the case, so it appears th…
A commenter who wishes or incites someone's violent death can be sentenced to up to one year in prison.
Egon Rónai, who conducted an interview with Orbán that was viewed by one million people, is receiving death threats online. The TV channel files a complaint in all such cases. A commentator who wishes someone to die violently or incites such a death can be sentenced to up to a year in prison. We have previously written several times about what happened in ATV's program Straight Talk, for example when Rónai […] The post We received terrible news …
Egon Rónai was subjected to undeserved attacks not only from anonymous social media posters, but also from left-wing journalists.
Egon Rónai has been receiving death threats since the Orbán interview, ATV is filing a complaint - The CEO stated that they are not making television for extremists.
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