Human Wrongs Watch
By The Hungarian Helsinki Committee*
The Punitive State: if you can’t solve it, ban it!
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee
Whenever there’s public dissent or the government finds no solution to a social problem, governments of the Fidesz party resorts to prohibition or punishment.
Harassment and discrimination of the homeless people has been ongoing for long, but this new level of persecution of homelessness began at the time of the second Fidesz government and has continuously been on Fidesz’s agenda ever since.
In summer 2018, the two third majority of the parliament banned homelessness in the whole country, making the lives of one of the most vulnerable social groups even harder.
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 