Hungary: Bill Threatens To Eviscerate Democracy

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Protesters demonstrate outside the parliament in Budapest against a bill empowering the government to sanction civil society groups and media deemed to threaten Hungary’s sovereignty, May 18, 2025. © 2025 FERENC ISZA/AFP via Getty Images (Berlin, May 21, 2025) – A bill introduced by a member of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party is designed to gut civil society and strangle freedom of expression and democratic governance, Human Rights Watch said today. The proposed law, which should be rejected, gives sweeping powers to a government-appointed body to label foreign-funded…

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