Senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. Views expressed my own. RTs not endorsement
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Lydia Gall retweeted
Serbia is not joking. In Hungary, it took a few months.
Hungary’s new government has taken an important step toward dismantling a key discriminatory legacy of the Orbán era: laws targeting LGBT people. But key discriminatory provisions remain in place. Gov't should finish the job 🇭🇺🌈
Read more: hrw.org/news/2026/09/16/refo…
Lydia Gall retweeted
Based on the leaked document, we expect an immediate response from the Prosecutor's Office on whether @PM_ViktorOrban and János Hajdu have been questioned as suspects in the "gold convoy" case.
Lydia Gall retweeted
As a woman from Afghanistan and Human Rights Watch researcher, I will not comply with the Taliban’s restrictive rules. Afghan women should not have to submit to discriminatory rules to exercise a right to speak publicly. Wherever we are, our voices matter.
hrw.org/news/2026/04/24/tali…
The landmark @EUCourtPress ruling on #Hungary's anti-#LGBT law first time Court rules that a member state has breached the fundamental values of the EU. New @magyarpeterMP govt should repeal this discriminatory and stigmatizing law. 🇭🇺 🌈
More here: hrw.org/news/2026/04/22/hung…
🚨🙌The Court of Justice of the European Union ruling on April 21, 2026, against Hungary’s 2021 anti-LGBT law is an important rejection of efforts to stigmatize LGBT people.
HRW calls on Hungary’s new government to act without delay to repeal the discriminatory law.
Read more: bit.ly/48gtl2chttps://bit.ly…
Europe’s top court delivers a judgment:
🇭🇺 Hungary’s anti-LGBT law violates EU law and fundamental values - dignity, equality, and freedom of expression.
Labeling it “child protection” doesn’t make discrimination legal. @hrw @magyarpeterMP
hrw.org/news/2026/04/22/hung…
This reaction by renowned Partizan journalist to state radio (the previous government's mouthpiece funded by tax payers money) interviewing incoming Hungarian PM, @magyarpeterMP, live this morning.
Hungary’s incoming PM @magyarpeterMP on state controlled TV for the first time in 18 months - an absurd situation. Many of M1’s viewers likely to heard MP for first time. He gave state controlled propaganda media a hard time here too, repeated actions to restore #mediafreedom
Lydia Gall retweeted
It took one and a half years and an election victory for
➡️Péter Magyar to be invited to state media
➡️state radio to start playing "a larger variety of music"
➡️state TV to air Magyar's presser
➡️Fidesz politicians to give interviews to independent media
And it's only Tuesday.
#Hungary’s incoming PM @magyarpeterMP is live on Hungarian state radio, giving the reporter a hard time and stated as a priority to immediately address media laws and the management of public service media. 🇭🇺
Lydia Gall retweeted
okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here.
Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch.
Let's go.
16 years of rights-abusive rule is over. Hungary has a historic chance to restore rule of law and basic rights. The new government should end decree rule, scrap SPO, protect media & assembly rights, and deliver real reforms: hrw.org/news/2026/04/13/hung… 🇭🇺 #hungary @magyarpeterMP
Lydia Gall retweeted
Another day, another ban.
Budapest police is using “child protection” arguments to justify banning a trans rights demonstration.
This is yet another clear attack on freedom of assembly and expression for all Hungarians. hrw.org/news/2026/03/18/hung…
Lydia Gall retweeted
#Hungary: The prosecution of activist Géza Buzás-Hábel for organising the 2025 Pécs Pride marks a new step in the restriction of assembly. Charges should be dropped. The crackdowns on the right to gather peacefully and express dissent should be reversed.👇
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Lydia Gall retweeted
#Uzbekistan ended state-imposed forced labor in the cotton harvest in 2021, but authorities continue to violate the human & labor rights of cotton & wheat farmers through a coercive state production system.
More in a NEW @hrw - @UzbekForum report, here:
hrw.org/news/2026/02/17/uzbe…
Shutting down court cases by decree isn't how a democracy functions. This is government telling the courts what they can address simply because it does not like the legal challenge or those bringing it. Revoke decree, restore access to courts, EU shld act. hrw.org/news/2026/02/12/hung…
Lydia Gall retweeted
I visited #Slovakia and talked to opposition politicians, anti corruption activists and whistleblowers. This is what corruption in Slovakia looks like. 👇🏻
Lydia Gall retweeted
Here in the @ChurchTimes @LydsG and I warn that 🇬🇧 risks failing to learn the lesson from the shooting in Minneapolis. When govts treat civic participation as a threat not an exercise of democratic rights, abuses of power becomes more likely — sometimes at devastating human cost.
"In the UK, as in the United States, democratic participation is becoming a progressively riskier exercise."
Crackdowns on civil action are not confined to the US, say @YasmineAhmed001 and @LydsG @hrw
#protest #civilcation #humanrights
churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
Lydia Gall retweeted
As the autocratic Viktor Orban diverts funds to his corrupt cronies, the Hungarian government is failing to ensure older people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living, including access to sufficient food, medicine, and energy.
hrw.org/news/2026/01/14/inad…
