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Here's Human Rights Watch on Hungary: https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia/hungary https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia/hungary Much of it focuses on the

Here's Human Rights Watch on Hungary: https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia/hungary https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia/hungary Much of it focuses on the treatment of refugees, but you'll also find information about the suppression of free speech and the like. A "democratically elected government" in a country where the opposition is suppressed is not that democratically elected after all.

ahoka 9y ago
Only the sentence about refugees is true, but that has nothing to do with democracy. <tinfoil>Financier and philanthropist George Soros of the Open Society Foundation announced in 2010 his intention to grant US $100 million to HRW over a period of ten years to help it expand its efforts internationally.</tinfoil>
- tom_mellior 9y ago
  > <tinfoil> Ah, I see. Presumably he also finances... Freedom House: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/hungary https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/hungary The International Press Institute: https://ipi.media/civil-defamation-and-media-freedom-in-hungary/ https://ipi.media/civil-defamation-and-media-freedom-in-hung... The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/opinion/hungarys-crackdown-on-the-press.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/opinion/hungarys-crackdow... The US government: https://hu.usembassy.gov/hungary-media-freedom-press-statement-u-s-department-state/ https://hu.usembassy.gov/hungary-media-freedom-press-stateme... The LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-hungary-media-freedom-20201010-story.html http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-hungary-media-free...