New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- Budapest's liberal mayor was charged Wednesday for organizing a banned LGBTQ+ Pride event last year that was among the largest in Hungary's history.

Police had been investigating Mayor Gergely Karacsony after the June 28 march went ahead despite a ban imposed by Hungary's right-wing nationalist government. Organizers of the event said some 300,000 people participated.

Karacsony was charged for organizing the unlawful assembly despite a prohibition order, the Budapest Chief Prosecutor's Office said. It recommended he face a fine without a trial.

Prosecutors said Karacsony defied the police order banning the Pride march, "repeatedly published public calls to participate in the assembly, and then led the assembly." ...