21 February 2003 BUDAPEST, Hungary--In the past few weeks the government has played a farcical, malicious, and clumsy game with the right of assembly. It has forbidden group after group from demonstrating at their requested time and place, citing “disproportionate disruption to traffic” as the reason. But how seriously the police took this excuse was […]

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