A four-member delegation of the Venice Commission, led by Mr. Iain Cameron, Professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, was received on 29 August 2025 by Prof. Dr. András Zs. Varga, President of the Curia of Hungary.
The Curia rejected the legal action brought against the decision of the assembly authority prohibiting a march notified by a private individual with the scheduled date of 2 August 2025 to celebrate fundamental rights.
The Curia rejected the legal action brought against the decision of the police to ban an assembly scheduled by the notification for 28 June 2025, whose purpose was as follows: “The rights protection organizations that notified the authority of the assembly claim that the police and the Curia unlawfully restricted their freedom of assembly, in violation of the provisions of the Fundamental Law of Hungary, the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Freedom of assembly is a fundamental right.
The Curia annulled the decision of the assembly authority prohibiting four organizations from holding a march on 28 June 2025 in protest against the erosion of their freedom of assembly.
Acting on the basis of the Curia’s previous annulling judgement, the assembly authority decided to ban the event, notified by the organizers with the scheduled date of 28 June 2025, with the following purpose: “March for the equal rights of LGBTQI people on the 5th anniversary of the adoption of section 33. Section 33 came into force on 29 May 2020, depriving transgender people of the right to change their gender and related name.