Hungary Drops Charges Against Organisers of Banned Pride Marches
- Hungarian prosecutors dropped charges against Mayor Gergely Karacsony on Thursday, citing a Court of Justice of the European Union ruling that invalidated the law used to ban the 2025 LGBTQ rights rally.
- The Budapest Pride March proceeded in 2025 despite a police ban, transforming into a mass demonstration against Prime Minister Viktor Orban, which led to criminal charges filed against Karacsony in January.
- Prosecutors alleged the Mayor violated assembly laws by registering the Pride rally as a municipal event; the march proceeded peacefully with tens of thousands of participants in downtown Budapest.
- An April ruling from the CJEU found Hungary's 2021 "child protection" law unlawfully restricted access to content regarding homosexuality and gender variance, forming the basis for the dropped charges.
- Centre-Right Tisza party ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a landmark April 12 election, ending his 16-year tenure that had previously shaped the country's legislative approach to LGBTQ rights.
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Hungary prosecutors drop charges against Budapest mayor for organizing 2025 Pride March
The Budapest 5th and 13th District Prosecutor’s Office dropped the charges Thursday against the city’s Mayor Gergely Karácsony for organizing the 2025 Budapest Pride March. In Thursday’s statement, the Hungarian prosecution maintained that it had brought the charges lawfully, in accordance with the law in force at the time. However, a European court held that the anti-LGBTQ+ law, passed in the guise of child protection, is inconsistent with the…
Charges against Budapest mayor for organizing Pride march dropped
Hungarian authorities on Thursday dropped charges against Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony over his role in organizing the city’s 2025 Pride march. Karácsony spoke at the event, even though then-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government banned it. More than 100,000 people defied the ban and participated in the march that took place on June 28, 2025. The Associated Press notes the Budapest Chief Prosecutor’s Office in January charged Karácsony wit…
Viktor Orbán had banned the Pride Parade in Budapest in 2025. The mayor of the city still allowed it and was charged with the charges, and the charges were now dropped.
The prosecution cites a European court ruling against a law by the Orbán government
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Hungary drops charges against organisers of banned Pride marches
Hungarian prosecutors said Thursday they had dropped charges against organisers of last year's Pride marches, citing a landmark ruling from the EU's top court.
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