Hungary awards top journalism prize to anti-Roma broadcaster

An anti-Semitic and Roma-bashing TV broadcaster in Hungary has received the country’s top journalism prize.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing government awarded Ferenc Szaniszlo the Tancsics Prize for journalism on the 15 March 2013.

A week later Ferenc Szaniszló was ordered to hand the present back by the government following an outcry.

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ESO: Background Information: Hungary’s constitutional changes fuel new tensions http://www.europeansources.info/record/hungarys-constitutional-changes-fuel-new-tensions/

ESO: Background Information: Hungarian Roma flee homes fearing vigilante attacks http://www.europeansources.info/record/hungarian-roma-flee-homes-fearing-vigilante-attacks/

BBC News, 18.03.13: Anger in Hungary at prize for 'anti-Semitic' reporter http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21834834

BBC News, 21.03.13: Hungarian journalist returns prize after outcry http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21880348

Magyar Hírlap , 21.03.13: ‘Szaniszló hands back medal’ (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/3570711-szaniszlo-hands-back-medal

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