Crackdown on ‘foreign interventions’ decried by Hungarian media

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Sovereignty protection office created with powers to investigate anyone active in public life

Ten independent Hungarian media outlets issued a joint warning on Wednesday that a new law was “capable of severely restricting the freedom of the press”.

The media organisations, which range from small investigative outlets to popular online news portals, said that a law approved by the Hungarian parliament on Tuesday could make it “difficult or even impossible for independent newsrooms, journalists and media companies to operate”.

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