Hungary’s legislators, confronted with the dilemma of whether to permit full freedom or punish hate-mongering, have passed a law to restrain racist rhetoricby ZSOFIA SZILAGYI HUNGARIAN AUTHORIties now have greater powers to arrest and prosecute extremists who publicly advocate racism, after parliament’s passage on 12 March of an amendment to the penal code. The amendment, which is better-drafted and more […]

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