Around 100,000 Hungarians rally for democracy as internet tax hits nerve


  • World
  • Wednesday, 29 Oct 2014

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - (This version of the October 28 story corrects first date in quote in paragraph 8 to 2002)

About 100,000 Hungarians rallied on Tuesday night to protest at a planned tax on data traffic and the broader course of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government they saw as undermining democracy and relations with European Union peers.

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