Hungarian Act on freedom of the press
THIS IS turned on everyone: by passing a media law severely restricting the freedom of the press, Prime Minister Viktor Orban had not imagined that the opposition can exploit the most radical provisions to combat government on its own ground. A small leftist party, the "Zöld Badoldal (Green Left, ZB)", thus chose to file a complaint with the new and all-powerful Media Council (MT) against a near Orban editor of the Daily right. According to the law passed on December 20 by a parliament acquired two-thirds Orban government, heavy fines may be imposed by the Media Council in writing against a " in case of violation of public interest, public order and morality " or " publication of unbiased information. " In addition, the new law allows the Media Council to compel journalists to reveal their sources. January 4, Zsolt Bayer, a frequent anti-Semitic rants and anti-Roma, had lamented that all the communists in Hungary did not been murdered in 1919 by a militia of the extreme right, who had then committed a massacre of supporters of the Communist Republic of Councils ephemeral Bea Kun (March-August 1919). " If the objective of the new media law is truly to end incitement to hatred, we can hope that Zsolt Bayer will be the first journalist punished," said the party ZB. 
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