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.
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