Tens of thousands protest in Budapest over sexual abuse case pardon

Viktor Orban under pressure as turmoil continues a week after the presidential pardon was revealed

Tens of thousands of people protested in Budapest on Friday at the biggest rally against Viktor Orban's government for years, after a sexual abuse case pardon by President Katalin Novak caused public uproar and led to her resignation.

The conservative Hungarian prime minister, who has been in power since 2010, has sought to defuse the week-long scandal that brought down two of his key political allies, the president and the former justice minister, Judit Varga, but it has continued to dominate domestic media.