READ AND DOWNLOADThis study analyses current trends in civil defamation and privacy cases in Hungary involving the media and summarises key challenges for freedom of the press and expression. Written by Hungarian media lawyer Bea Bodrogi, the study examined 250 court decisions related to civil protection of 'personality rights', an area in Hungarian law that includes defamation, privacy and personal image.
International Press Institute
2 March 2017
In August, a leaked memo revealed that a public agency had instructed public television workers to avoid showing images of women and children in their coverage of the refugee crisis.
Freedom House
24 April 2016
New per GB data transfer tax withdrawn following large protests
Freedom House
31 October 2015
Ranked 71st in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2015
Ranked 71st in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
2 May 2014
"Hungarian lawmakers adopt the criminalization of libel"
Committee to Protect Journalists
11 February 2014
Ranked 64th in annual press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders
1 February 2014
Hungary’s independent media today faces creeping strangulation. State capture of Hungarian media is unfolding slowly but surely, principally through the “soft censor- ship” of financial incentives and influence that affect media outlets’ editorial content and economic viability.
World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
28 January 2014
Limits of free expression tested as football fans raise Nazi flags, shout Seig Heil
Human Rights Watch
22 January 2014
Human Rights Watch
16 May 2013
Ranked 74th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2013
Hundreds of religious organisations stripped of registered status and budgetary allocations for social and charitable services under new law
Freedom House
16 January 2013
Restrictive media law comes into force as Hungary joins European Union
Committee to Protect Journalists
22 February 2012
Adopting law that allows ruling party control over media, leads to 17th position decrease in annual press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders
26 January 2012