<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(63, 64, 65); font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class="">“Systematic Suppression: Hungary’s Arts and Culture in Crisis” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(63, 64, 65); font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Over the last decade, Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has implemented constitutional, legislative, and administrative changes aimed at consolidating his party’s control over the arts. Under Orbán’s leadership, Hungary’s previously independent arts and culture sector has been refashioned as a mechanism for advancing a singular ethno-nationalist narrative. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(63, 64, 65); font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.36px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Created in partnership with </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class="">UC</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class="">Berkeley School of Law </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">and</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class=""> Columbia University’s Harriman Institute</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class="">and funded by the SDK Foundation for Human Dignity, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class=""><i style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Systematic Suppression</i></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> exposes how Orbán’s administration wields policy to limit free expression, restrict plurality in the arts, and encourage self-censorship among Hungarian artists. Grounded in international, regional, and national legal frameworks, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class="">this report documents the impact the Orbán</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class="">administration has had on the arts and culture sector in Hungary. Further, it seeks to strengthen protections for artists and cultural workers through precise, actionable policy recommendations.</span></p></div><div class=""><a href="https://artisticfreedominitiative.org/projects/artistic-freedom-monitor/hungary/" class="">https://artisticfreedominitiative.org/projects/artistic-freedom-monitor/hungary/</a></div></body></html>