Protesters demand Hungarian president's resignation over a pardon in a child sexual abuse case

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Protestors called for Hungary's conservative president to resign on Friday after it came to light she had pardoned a person convicted of covering up a child sexual abuse case.

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00:00 Protesters are pressuring Hungary's President Katalin Novak to resign after it was revealed

00:06 she pardoned a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case.

00:11 Novak pardoned the former deputy director of a state-run children's home last year.

00:16 The man was sentenced in 2018 to more than three years in prison for helping to cover

00:21 up the sexual abuse committed by the institution's director, who himself was sentenced to eight

00:26 years for his abuse of at least 10 children.

00:30 Viktor Orbán reported on Facebook in the afternoon that he had made a constitutional amendment

00:34 to the law, which he has since done, to prevent state-run pardon for children's cases of

00:38 abuse.

00:39 Novak Katalin was asked only one question so far, even at the beginning of the week

00:44 at a press conference, where she did not answer the question of why she had given

00:48 the pardon to Kándri.

00:49 The pardon of the President of the Republic should have been registered by the then

00:53 Minister of Justice.

00:54 This post was filled in by Judit Varga at the time of the decision brought in the Bicske

00:58 case.

00:59 On the day of the decision, Novak Katalin is not in the country.

01:02 On Facebook, pictures posted from the waterfront in Doha were published on Friday.

01:09 [WHOOSH]

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