Hungary Protest Against Child Abuse Raises Pressure on Orban

Tens of thousands of Hungarians took to the streets on Saturday as a video depicting abuse at a state-run juvenile facility added to pressure on Prime Minister Viktor Orban four months before elections.

Protesters marched from downtown Pest across the Danube to Buda castle where Orban and his ally President Tamas Sulyok have their offices. Opposition leader Peter Magyar, whose Tisza party leads in polls ahead of April’s vote and who organized the protest, called on Orban to quit over what he called a failure to protect children in state care.