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Updated: HUNGARY: PRESS FREEDOM: Petition drawn up by journalists: Proclamation for a media law to ensure basic constitutional and civil rights

01 January 2011

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Updated: HUNGARY: PRESS FREEDOM: Petition drawn up by journalists: Proclamation for a media law to ensure basic constitutional and civil rights (link): "We, the undersigned, as producers and consumers of Hungarian media content, disagree with the spirit of the media law adopted on December 21, 2010 by the Hungarian Parliament in order to guarantee our basic constitutional and civil rights"

- Hungarian PM: EU cannot tell us 'what to do' on media law (euobserver, link): "The establishment of a new media authority... made up of government appointees, will be able to impose fines of up to €720,000 for news deemed to be offensive to "human dignity" or to be unbalanced, and will also be able to force journalists to reveal their sources in certain situations, critics say."

- European Federation of Journalists: Journalists question Hungary's leadership of Europe as media law provokes outrage (IFEX, link)
- English translation of Hungary's infamous new media law (link)
- Verhofstadt: Hungary must uphold media freedom (ALDE, link)
- EU Commission and Council must take action against Hungary over draconian media law (Green/EFA, link)

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