Rights Groups: Hungary’s Coronavirus Law Creates Indefinite 'Dictatorship'

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Governments around the world have introduced emergency laws to help them tackle the coronavirus outbreak. In the first segment in a series of VOA reports examining how the pandemic is affecting global democracies, Henry Ridgwell looks at Hungary’s sweeping new legislation — which critics say gives the government of that country unprecedented powers to bypass democracy and silence critics. Gabor Ancsin and Justin Spike in Budapest also contributed to this report.