US EditionThousands March in Budapest Demanding Orbán Resign Over Abuse Scandal
Opposition leader Péter Magyar called for Prime Minister Orbán's resignation amid protests after videos showed abuse of children in state-run juvenile detention centres.
- On Saturday, tens of thousands marched to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's offices in Budapest, led by Péter Magyar, protesting videos showing abuse at a state-run juvenile correction facility.
- Earlier this week, the Hungarian government placed the country's five juvenile correctional institutions under direct police supervision, while prosecutors detained seven people and investigate the centre's former director on multiple suspicions.
- Some 27,000 people had signed up for Saturday's protest march, and protesters carried soft toys and torches despite freezing weather while footage showed the Szolo Street juvenile detention centre director kicking a boy.
- The scandal poses a rare political setback for Orbán as Péter Magyar urged Orbán to resign, with Magyar's Tisza polling ahead of Orbán's Fidesz before elections expected in April next year.
- The government argues the revelations show systems are working, but critics say the Hungarian government communications ignored abuses for years despite past resignations of Katalin Novák, former President, and Judit Varga, former Justice Minister, in 2024.
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Newly revealed abuse cases in children's homes put Viktor Orbán under pressure. Opposition leader Peter Magyar had called for a demonstration.
Tens of thousands of people have protested in Budapest over alleged inaction by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government over allegations of child abuse in state institutions. The public was outraged by surveillance footage showing the former director of a juvenile detention center in the capital kicking a boy in the head. The opposition leader's 2021 report found that more than a fifth of children in state-run institutions had been ab…
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After becoming aware of abuse cases in state children's and youth institutions, tens of thousands in Budapest demand the resignation of Orbán.
Orbana was called to resign.
Opposition leader Magyar has published a report from 2021 so far, which finds that more than a fifth of children in state-run care institutions have been victims of abuse.
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