Last month activists Kinga Kalocsai and András Szeles vandalized one of the government’s xenophobic billboards, walked into a police station, and turned themselves in. Hungarian leftist blog Kettős Mérce (Double Standard) reports that a Budapest court has now exonerated the perpetrators their crimes. The court based its ruling on precedence, citing first the Fundamental Law (Hungary’s constitution) and an earlier Constitutional Court decision, and declared that vandalizing a billboard can be a form of freedom of expression.
