Pro-Orban Magazine Lists Partners of Soros

A Hungarian magazine published more than 200 names of people it claims are likely part of a group that Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls "mercenaries" paid by US-Hungarian billionaire philanthropist George Soros to topple the government.

Those on the list in the weekly publication Figyelo include members of rights organizations such as Amnesty International, anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International, refugee advocates, investigative journalists and faculty and officials from the Soros Foundation, Budapest-based Central European University.

Some of those named are deceased.

Figyelo is a formerly highly respected business magazine that took on a unabashedly pro-government slant after it was acquired by Mr Orban ally in December 2016.

Mr Orban was re-elected to the fourth term as Hungary's leader on Sunday's parliamentary elections. A few weeks before the vote, he told a crowd of thousands of supporters that, after the elections, "moral, political and legal amends" would be sought against rivals.

Mr Orban, who based his campaign on demonizing migrants, blames Soros and organizations supported by his Open Society Foundations for wanting to allow thousands of immigrants to Hungary.

Last month, Mr Orban said the government knew the names of some 2,000 members of the "Soros mercenary army," paid to "work towards bringing down the government."

"We know exactly who these people are, we know names ... and how and why they are working to transform Hungary into an immigrant country," Mr Orban said on March 30 on state radio.

The government's International Communications Office, which has been asked about the published list, including whether the names in Figyelo matches those compiled by the government, referred all...