Hungarian Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Budapest Mayor for Organising 2025 Pride March

BUDAPEST, June ⁠4 (Reuters) – ⁠Hungarian prosecutors ⁠have dropped charges ​against Budapest’s liberal ‌Mayor Gergely Karacsony ‌over ⁠his ⁠role in organising an LGBTQ+ rights ​rally in 2025, prosecutors said ​in a statement on ⁠Thursday.

Tens of ⁠thousands ⁠of protesters ​marched through Budapest in June ​2025 ⁠despite a police ban, turning the ⁠Pride march into a mass anti-government ⁠demonstration in one of the biggest shows of opposition to former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Orban ⁠was ousted in an election in April.

(Reporting by Krisztina ​Than; Editing by ​Alex Richardson)

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