Student Blockade Protests Viktor Orban’s Reach at a Top Arts University

A demonstration at the University for Theater and Film Arts in Budapest has received support from theater groups, students and faculties in Hungary and around Europe. BUDAPEST — Nearly 100 students have occupied a key building of a prestigious Hungarian university for the past week to protest what they see as a takeover of their school by the autocratic government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a demonstration that has become a symbol of resistance to the country’s nationalist leadership.

[text source: The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/world/europe/hungary-students-blockade-orban.html]