Hungarian police will be allowed to use facial recognition cameras to identify and fine Pride attendees.
El Fidesz, the match of Viktor Orbán, continues his crusade against the collective LGTBI. The Hungarian Parliament approved this Tuesday an amendment to the assembly law that practically prohibits the holding of the parade LGTBI pride and impose fines to the organizers and the people who attend this event that has been held for almost three decades. All of this under the hackneyed pretext of defending the smaller.
Orbán, who has openly criticized the Pride, has intensified in the last weeks his attacks on the media and people LGTBI since the inauguration of Donald Trump and with an eye on the elections in Hungary of the next year.
The amendment registered on Monday by Fidesz and approved this Tuesday in the Parliament along with the votes of the extreme right, it practically prohibits the Pride because it is considered harmful to children.The bill amends the law regulating the right of assembly, stipulating that it is prohibited to hold meetings that violate the prohibition established in the law on the protection of children.", the approved text states.
Use of facial recognition cameras
It also allows the Police the use of facial recognition cameras for identify and fine to all those who attend the event held at the Andrassy Avenue, a wide street in the center of BudapestThe amendment stipulates that those who abandon the march upon being warned by the police would not be fined.
Own Orbán He already advised the organizers last February not to even bother organizing the event this year.
The opposition has denounced that this amendment violates one of the fundamental rights, that of meeting, and further limits the rights of the community LGTBI in the Central European country. During the vote, legislators from the opposition and liberal parties Momentum They lit flares in the colours of the Hungarian flag: red, white and green.
For their part, the organizers responded that the Pride, which "does not pose any threat to minors", will be held because freedom of assembly is a constitutional right.
Along the same lines, the liberal mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karacsony, assured in a publication on social networks that the march of the Pride will take place this year and "maybe it's bigger than ever«.
