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Hungarian prosecutors drop charges against Budapest mayor for organising 2025 Pride march

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Mayor of Budapest Gergely Karacsony waves, during The Budapest Pride March in Budapest, Hungary, June 28, 2025. REUTERS/Lisa Leutner
Mayor of Budapest Gergely Karacsony waves, during The Budapest Pride March in Budapest, Hungary, June 28, 2025. REUTERS/Lisa Leutner Lisa Leutner Reuters

BUDAPEST - 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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This story was originally published June 4, 2026 at 1:26 AM.

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