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Ban hate speech, Israel tells Hungary

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byRobert Hodgson - The Budapest Times

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Ban hate speech, Israel tells Hungary

Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman called on Hungary to bring in laws banning "hate speech" in a speech in Budapest on January 27 2010 to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

"We must stop the spread of anti-Semitism in this way," said Lieberman, who is also the deputy prime minister of Israel, because extremist movements are "ever more boldly rearing their heads" in Hungary, state news agency MTI reported.

Earlier on the same day - January 27 - the prime ministerial candidate of the governing Hungarian Socialist Party, Attila Mesterházy, attempted just that when he tabled a motion to ban "hate speech" in parliament.

Fidesz’s deputy caucus leader Róbert Répássy said his party would only support such a ban if crimes attributed to the communist and socialist regimes were given identical treatment. Earlier attempts at introducing such legislation have been rejected by the centre right and subject to criticism on freedom of speech grounds.

Read more at The Budapest Times.

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