ANTI-FASCIST activists gathered in Hungary’s capital at the weekend to oppose an annual far-right commemoration amid diplomatic tensions between Budapest and Rome over the detention of an Italian citizen in a Hungarian jail.

Hundreds marched through central Budapest alongside a heavy police presence, calling for “freedom for every anti-fascist.”

The activists sought to prevent the far right from observing its so-called day of honour, an annual event marking a failed attempt by Nazi and allied Hungarian soldiers to break out of Budapest during the Red Army’s siege of the city in 1945.