Here's some interesting news from the #orban kingdom ( #Hungary ).

The control-free govenrment have changed the criminal law, apart from other parts the one about fake news and the new text contains that it is a crime when it "suits the purpose of obstructing the fight agains the virus".

While some believed that this change would be the tool the government needed to stop opposition-oriented media and people to reveal all the crimes of the government this has been vehemently refuted: it is only to help fighting the disease.

The first demonstration of this support of the better good of the nation was on 12th may, when a 64 year old man was arrested by a bunch of policemen (with extremely high visiblility in the vicinity, red lights, sirens and whatnot) due to his public #facebook post on 28 april which was shared by 11 people and contained the observation that "the government timed the end of the quarantine laws on the peak of the infections and that it could result mass infection in the population". Later it has became known that he also posted earlier that "you are a merciless tyrant but you must know: all dictators fall eventually". (It was not specified who this tyrant was, but it is obvious for everyone.)

The Operative Body of the Government did not comment the case (they speak every day about things to know about the virus), despite being directly asked.

The man was released the next day after he complained for the imputation and the treatment, and the prosecution declared that there was no crime and the reasoning was invalid by multiple reasons. The police did not carry the man home, so he had to walk. The police kept the computer, pendives and other collected electronics of the man, just because.
The man is probably suing the police for various reasons.

Just not to let our thoughts wander in bad directions another man (Csóka-Szűcs János) was arrested on the night of the 13th may. Five policemen and two cars carried the man away around 6 am, due to his facebook post, which was a repost of an opposition politician (Hadházy Ákos) about the emptying of hospital beds and the demonstration about it and and contained the addition that 1170 hospital beds were emptied in Győr (and the sick people were sent home) too. (The fact is that 1200 beds were emptied in Győr.) The man was promptly released when he mentioned that if the police want to call his contacts they should contant two well-known opposition EU PMs. The police did not carry home the handicapped man.

This nicely fits the earlier change of the media law which could make arrest of publicists much easier on the grounds of "fake news".

#hungary #government refuse to publish real #COVID numbers, and being sued by a known opposition politician to get the data out. It was leaked that Hungarian numbers of "tested" actually contains no information about the number of tested persons but "the number of tests done by the officially accredited laboratories".

In the meantime NGOs and individuals buy and send protectional equipment to government run hospitals while #Orbán boasts about how many millions of masks and hand sanitizers they were acquired.

Parallel interesting newsbit it that doctors and nurses face reduced salary due to the "significantly lower number of people in the hospitals". That is also true since the government commanded the hospitals to send home about 40000 people from hospitals, including people without close relatives or having life threatening sickness; some of them already have died.

In the meantime they push the selling of land around #Balaton, the largest lake in middle Europe and one of the main tourist attractions of Hungary. Selling, as for their own people, like the multi-billionaire gas-fitter #Mészáros (neighbour of Orbán in his home village) and #Tiborc (son in law of Orbán).