Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
Disturbance of the peaceful relationships among nations, subversive agitation against the democratic republic, affront to community, spreading rumor, insulting authority or official persons, agitation against the law or official orders; at one time or another, all of these actions have been considered crimes in Hungary. As Hungary continues to make its transition to democracy and is beginning to safeguard traditional democratic principles such as freedom of speech, many of these laws have been reformulated, reinterpreted, or even discarded. However, civil rights problems still exist in Hungary both in law and in practice. While the Hungarian legal system has certainly made progress towards developing a civil rights jurisprudence more in line with that of the international legal community, more time will be needed until civil rights are as well protected as those in other democratic countries.
The following article focuses on the history and evolution of freedom of speech jurisprudence in the context of Hungary's tumultuous political situation over the past fifty years.
Recommended Citation
Kardos, Gabor, "Freedom of Speech in the Time of Transition" (1993). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 194.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/194
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