BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Authorities in Hungary on Wednesday filed charges against Budapest’s liberal mayor over his role in organizing a banned LGBTQ+ Pride event in the capital last year.
Gergely Karácsony, who has led Budapest since 2019, had been the subject of a police investigation following the march on June 28 which went ahead despite a ban imposed by Hungary’s right-wing nationalist government.
The event was the largest of its kind in the country’s history, with organizers saying some 300,000 people participated.
