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  • Several thousand Hungarians rallied in Budapest Friday in support of a student blockade of a top arts university sparked by a controversial reform of the institution by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government. Dozens of students have occupied the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) since Sunday after its management resigned while accusing the government of forcibly removing its autonomy. Several teaching staff at the 155-year-old institution including renowned movie director Ildiko Enyedi - a Golden Bear winner at the Berlinale film festival in 2017 - have also quit in protest. A crowd of over 2,000 people gathered near the university's cordoned-off entrance chanting "Solidarity!" and "We are with you!" in support of the students inside who looked down from upper floor balconies. The former management, including the university rector and senate, have described the transfer of the ownership of the state-run university to a private foundation run by government appointees as a hostile takeover. Operating since September 1, its new board is led by Attila Vidnyanszky, the pro-Orban director of Hungary's National Theatre. Student leaders have demanded that the new board steps down and that the overhaul is reversed. But the ministry in charge of higher education insists that the changes, including private sponsorship of SZFE, will improve both infrastructure and educational standards. In power for over a decade Orban's critics say the turmoil is the latest bid by his nationalist-conservative government to wrest power from institutions it sees as too left-leaning. While he has long dominated Hungary's economic and media landscape, in recent years Orban has also gained sway over the academic and cultural sectors, part of a so-called "culture war" sometimes referenced in pro-Orban media. Last year, the Budapest-based Central European University founded by the liberal US billionaire George Soros decided to move most of its activities to Vienna after a bitter legal battle launched by Orban in 2017. Parliament also passed last December a theatre law that increases the government's scope to select and appoint directors. Journalists at Hungary's top independent news website Index.hu also resigned en masse in July citing external political pressure. pmu/pvh
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  • Hungarian rally backs student blockade protesting state control
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