New media law substantially curtails press freedom, says SEENPM

A recent amendment adds to Hungary’s anti-LGBTQI propaganda law, and allows for the blanket use of facial recognition technology to identify those who attend Pride or related events.

In recent weeks, Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party have drastically ramped up rhetoric against media and CSOs that receive any form of foreign funding, and pledged to draft new legislation to protect national sovereignty.

The Brejza v Poland case centres on the surveillance of Polish opposition politician Krzysztof Brejza, whose phone was monitored for years using Pegasus spyware, and whose private information was used against him during an election campaign.