Anti-government protests in Hungary

Several thousand people held anti-government protests in the Hungarian capital during a national holiday on Sunday, and police detained 35 people.

Dressed in riot gear, the police chased some of the protesters through the streets of Budapest and prevented them from reaching Parliament, where violent anti-government protests had taken place in 2006.

At one point Sunday, tear gas was used to drive back a small group of demonstrators that tried to attack police lines near St. Stephen's Basilica, but law enforcement officials denied claims by Krisztina Morvai, a right-wing politician taking part in the protests, that she was beaten by police.

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