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The European Commission must act to protect the Budapest Pride organisers and its participants
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- In an attack on the European Union (EU) fundamental rights of freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, Hungary’s Parliament passed a package of amendments banning and criminalising Pride marches and their organisers.
- The signatory organisations demand urgent action from the European Commission to ensure Pride organisers and people marching on 28 June 2025 in Budapest will be safe and able to enjoy their rights to peacefully assemble and to protest.
- Without immediate action from the European Commission, the risk of serious and irreparable harm is imminent, including significant fines, the possibility of imprisonment of individuals, dispersal of the march, and dissolution of organisation(s) responsible for the organisation of the march.