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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jennifer Rankin and Flora Garamvolgyi

Hungarian judges face media ‘smears’ after meeting US ambassador

Viktor Orbán
Hungary has fallen to 73rd out of 140 countries in an international ranking on the rule of law under Viktor Orbán. Photograph: Bernadett Szabó/Reuters

Hungary’s leading judges have launched a defence of two colleagues who say they have faced a “full-scale smear campaign” by state-supporting media after the pair met the US ambassador.

The US embassy in Budapest has also spoken out against a “coordinated media attack” on the judges that it said was “an effort to instil fear” in anyone wishing to engage with the US government.

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