About 2,000 people demonstrate outside parliament as Népszabadság journalists liken suspension of publication to a coup The state of press freedom in Hungary has come under renewed scrutiny after the country's main leftwing opposition newspaper was temporarily closed, ostensibly on commercial grounds. The decision to suspend publication of Népszabadság by its owners, Mediaworks - who cited the need to seek a viable business model - sparked accusations of a "coup" from the paper's journalists...
Protests in Hungary at closure of main leftwing opposition newspaper
The Guardian - 9 Oct 2016 15:13
About 2,000 people demonstrate outside parliament as Népszabadság journalists liken suspension of publication to a coup The state of press freedom in Hungary has come under renewed scrutiny after the country's main leftwing opposition newspaper was temporarily closed, ostensibly on commercial grounds. The decision to suspend publication of Népszabadság by its owners, Mediaworks - who cited the need to seek a viable business model - sparked accusations of a "coup" from the paper's journalists...
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