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At midnight last night, one of Hungary's last remaining independent radio stations, Budapest-based Klubrádió, fell silent on the frequency on which it has broadcast since 2000 (Photo: morberg)

How Orbán killed a radio station

In 2021 democracy does not die overnight. Rather, it is dismantled brick by brick until the pillars on which it once stood are hollowed out and crumble.

This slow erosion of democratic institutions has been underway for more than a decade now in Hungary, where the ruling Fidesz party has undermined media independence and pluralism to achieve a degree of media control unpreced...

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At midnight last night, one of Hungary's last remaining independent radio stations, Budapest-based Klubrádió, fell silent on the frequency on which it has broadcast since 2000 (Photo: morberg)

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Jamie Wiseman is advocacy officer at the Vienna-based International Press Institute.

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