Hungarian prosecutors drop charges against Budapest mayor for organising 2025 Pride march

BUDAPEST - Hungarian prosecutors have dropped charges against Budapest's liberal Mayor Gergely Karacsony over his role in organising an LGBTQ+ rights rally in 2025, prosecutors said in a statement on Thursday.

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Budapest in June 2025 despite a police ban, turning the Pride march into a mass anti-government demonstration in one of the biggest shows of opposition to former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Orban was ousted in an election in April.

(Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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This story was originally published June 4, 2026 at 4:29 AM.