As soon as she got the new year with increased powers, the media control of the Hungarian government is already through - against a radio station. A song of U.S. rapper Ice-T at risk from their perspective of youth. Budapest - The Hungarian Media Authority NMHH is serious: On the first day, the guards have used the controversial expansion of its powers.Submitted by the ruling party supervisor initiated a case against the private channel Tilos Radio Budapest. Not because of political abuse of due reporting - but for an alleged breach of the protection of minors. The station had a song played by the U.S. rapper Ice-T. The charge of NMHH: The 1993 published song "It's on" is harmful to minors.
In the nearly 20-year-old Ice-T song threatens the police to gun shots are heard. In the course of the song, the singer boasted that it was easy for him to give a murder in order - it is the typical genre are getting crazy. Whether and how Tilos Radio is punished, was initially unclear.
As Hungarian media reported on Saturday, the opposition Socialist party MSZP took the station's defense. Tilos Radio claimed that the Hungarian American slang in the song did not understand anyway, so is that a harmful effect on minors not to be feared. After Saturday, which came into force media law NMHH now controls all the Hungarian media, including the content of their messages.
For violations of vague rules in the media law threatens heavy fines that may mean for some of the media to ruin. NMHH is directly controlled by the right-wing populist government of Hungary. All Hungarian opposition parties have announced a lawsuit against the law to the Constitutional Court.
International Law met with harsh criticism. Several European politicians called for immediate action against the country on 1 has taken over the EU presidency in January. Even Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized the law. Hungary should not violate the rule of law in dealing with the media, said one of their speakers.
The federal government observe the changes there with "great attention". Luxembourg Foreign Minister Asselborn spoke of a violation of human rights: "We have a problem." The opposition party MSZP asked in an open letter, whether the agency's published her translation of the rap lyrics would have financed themselves into Hungarian and whether the Hungarian text version is considered as "official" translation.
NMHH should have released a foreign translation, this would raise copyright issues, continued to write MSZP.
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