Tamás Terdik

As Budapest's chief of police, Tamás Terdik issued an order in June 2025 — acting in his capacity as the assembly-law authority — banning the Budapest Pride march, even though it was being co-organized by the Metropolitan Municipality and the Rainbow Mission Foundation. Unusually, police issued the ban before the city had even formally notified authorities of the gathering, prompting Mayor Gergely Karácsony to say police had 'issued a ban on a non-existent gathering — by that logic they could have banned unicorn walks.' Hungary's Kúria (Supreme Court) annulled that first ban on June 11, but police under Terdik banned the march a second time, so the event ultimately went ahead as a mass demonstration amid legal uncertainty. Terdik's police force carried out one of the first major enforcement actions under Hungary's 2025 national law restricting Pride events, an action Hungarian and international press and civil-liberties advocates alike characterized as an arbitrary restriction of the freedom of assembly.