The Hungarian government fails (click here) to respect the rule of law and human rights. Government representatives are increasingly hostile to journalists and critics and engage in anti-migrant, anti-Muslim and xenophobic rhetoric including through publicly funded campaigns. Authorities have introduced legislation targeting civil society organizations and universities receiving funding from abroad. Asylum seekers are detained indefinitely in substandard border camps without a possibility to challenge their detention. They face violence during operations to force them back to the border, and limitations on meaningful access to asylum.
May 14, 2019
By Richard Gonzalez
President Trump hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (click here) at the White House on Monday, a gesture the past two U.S. presidents avoided granting to the hard-right European leader.
Try substituting FEAR for respect and the image of Trump clears up quite nicely. Trump's form of respect, isn't respect at all. It defines any civilized definition of the word.
"People have a lot of respect for this Prime Minister," Trump said in a photo-op in the Oval Office before their meeting. Trump went on to warmly praise the Hungarian leader: "He's a respected man. And I know he's a tough man, but he's a respected man. And he's done the right thing, according to many people, on immigration."
Orban is on record calling Syrian refugees "Muslim invaders," and many human rights activists are concerned about the signals Trump is sending with this meeting, as NPR's Michele Kelemen reports:
The abuse of women in Hungary only reflects the same disregard Trump has for women in the USA. They are nothing but sex objects that need to know their place. Hungarian men get respect
...Survivors of domestic violence, (click here) women’s rights organizations, lawyers, shelter staff, and police officers interviewed for this report described brutal violence inflicted on women in Hungary, with often severe and long-lasting impacts on physical and psychological health. They described women stabbed and chopped at with knives, axes, and swords; kicked and punched in the abdomen while pregnant; raped; beaten with sticks, prams, iron rods, and thick cables to the point of broken bones and skull fractures; locked in sheds without clothes in winter; thrown off balconies; dumped in remote areas in the middle of the night; and subjected to severe psychological violence....
