On the Constitutionality of the Punishment of Scaremongering in the Hungarian Legal System

Scaremongering criminalized as a limitation to freedom of speech in Hungarian law. In lack of relevant case-law, free speech commentators rarely discussed the provision until the Government took action to step up the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ensuing amendment of the Criminal Code...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Koltay András
Format:	Article
Published:	2021
Series:	HUNGARIAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND EUROPEAN LAW 9 No. 1
mtmt:	32477065
Online Access:	https://publikacio.ppke.hu/2165

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