{"id":6871,"date":"2026-02-07T19:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:21:24","slug":"budapest-mayor-charged-over-organising-banned-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/07\/budapest-mayor-charged-over-organising-banned-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Budapest mayor charged over organising banned Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hungarian prosecutors have officially charged Budapest\u2019s opposition mayor, Gergely Kar\u00e1csony, for organizing the city&#8217;s Pride parade last June despite an explicit police ban. The event drew a record turnout of over 200,000 people and served as a major act of defiance against Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s increasingly restrictive laws regarding LGBTQ+ rights. Prosecutors are now seeking a fine through a summary judgment without a trial. The mayor remains defiant, describing himself as a &#8220;proud defendant&#8221; and asserting that the prosecution is a consequence of standing up for freedom against &#8220;petty and despicable power.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 28, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/news\/budapest-mayor-charged-over-organising-banned-pride\/\">euractiv.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian prosecutors have officially charged Budapest\u2019s opposition mayor, Gergely Kar\u00e1csony, for organizing the city&#8217;s Pride parade last June despite an explicit police ban. The event drew a record turnout of over 200,000 people and served as a major act of defiance against Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s increasingly restrictive laws regarding LGBTQ+ rights. Prosecutors are now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7051,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions\/7051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}