Aral Balkan
“Hungary requests revoking parliamentary immunity for [European MEP] Ilaria Salis … who spent 15 months in preventive imprisonment in Budapest on charges of assault against … neo-Nazi militants”
(Yes, you read all of that right.)
Here’s an idea: how about we lift Hungary’s EU membership instead and tell Orban in no uncertain terms that he can go fuck himself?
Aral Balkan
@fkamiah17 Thankfully, he’s still considered the wrong kind of fascist (the kind that supports Russia, not Israel).
MiniMia 🏴 🇵🇸
@aral Given our new fondness for outright fascism, I'm not sure where Orban sits on the popularity scale these days.
Aral Balkan
“‘It is no coincidence that the request was transmitted to the Parliament on October 10, the day after my speech in the Plenary on the Hungarian presidency, when I harshly criticized Orbán’s actions,’ Salis said in a press release, adding sarcastically, ‘Evidently, tyrants have a hard time digesting criticism.’”
Aral Balkan
“‘As I have already said several times, I hope that Parliament will choose to defend the rule of law and human rights without giving in to the arrogance of an “illiberal democracy” in an autocratic drift which, also through the mouths of its own leaders, has already declared guilty me on several occasions before sentencing,’ Salis continued in the note, stressing that “the minimum conditions for a fair trial to take place in Hungary do not exist.’”
Aral Balkan
@fkamiah17 No, we (as in the West, I’m assuming) don’t have a moral leg to stand on on anything and haven’t had one for a very long time, if ever. We do have better PR, though, so that’s something I guess.
MiniMia 🏴 🇵🇸
@aral We're not particularly conscientious about "not supporting Russia" ourselves though, are we - the laxity with which we enforce our so-called sanctions is testament to that.
Aral Balkan
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