Barring a u-turn from the Hungarian government, demonstrators will return to the streets of Budapest this afternoon to oppose Prime Minster Viktor Orban’s plans to tax the internet
Hungarians take to the streets to protest “internet tax”
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Zoltan Sipos
Zoltan Sipos
Zoltan Sipos is a regional correspondent for mappingmediafreedom.org and a journalist at Átlátszó Erdély.
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