George Soros Group Leaves Hungary, Citing 'Hate Campaign'
Source: NPR
Billionaire George Soros' pro-democracy Open Society Foundations will pull out of Hungary following growing pressure from the right-wing government there.
Citing "an increasingly repressive political and legal environment" in Hungary, the OSF said in a statement that its decision to quit the country comes amid a crackdown on non-governmental organizations launched by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who won re-election to his fourth term in a landslide victory last month.
Orbán who once received a $10,000 scholarship from the Soros Foundation to study political science at Oxford has been locked in an escalating dispute with Soros. Orbán accuses Soros a Jewish émigré who survived Nazi-occupied Hungary and later made his fortune in America of trying to wrest control of their native country from those elected to office.
The OSF calls the campaign against it and its founder a "hate campaign [that] has included propaganda posters and billboards, invoking anti-Semitic imagery from World War II."
Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/15/611204440/george-soros-group-leaves-hungary-citing-hate-campaign
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