{"id":343007,"date":"2025-08-14T05:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343007\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T05:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:03:17","slug":"glasgow-dj-at-risk-of-far-right-repression-bid-to-stay-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343007\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow DJ at risk of &#8216;far-right repression&#8217; bid to stay in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Bogi Szeles, an artist and DJ currently based in Glasgow, launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-bobo-pay-for-her-visa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe fundraiser<\/a> to help pay for a UK graduate visa.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Szeles (below) arrived in Scotland from Hungary, which she called a &#8220;dangerous far-right state&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Szeles completed a fine art degree at Dundee University (Image: GoFundMe) She described Hungary as an &#8220;autocratic state&#8221; with high inflation, low wages and &#8220;casualised corruption&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Hungary has once again become a fascist, far-right state that is not only unpleasant, but also dangerous to live in especially as a woman,&#8221;\u00a0Szeles said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They&#8217;ve already started taking away our human rights, and will probably only become progressively radical.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Szeles completed a fine art degree at Dundee University, where her graduate installation considered &#8220;how authoritarianism shapes identity and the self&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25387910.fireworks-will-banned-3-glasgow-areas---details-full\/?rel=cl_mra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fireworks will be banned in these 3 Glasgow areas &#8211; here is the details in full<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/news\/25387803.shop-owner-wants-open-high-demand-restaurant---council-said-no\/?rel=cl_mra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This shop owner wants to open &#8216;high demand&#8217; restaurant &#8211; but the council said no<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: GoFundMe)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: GoFundMe) <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: GoFundMe) She\u00a0said that this subject could put her at risk if she were to return to Hungary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The government would censor and possibly detain me. They&#8217;ve taken activists to court for simply exercising free speech,&#8221;\u00a0Szeles added.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After graduating from Dundee, Szeles moved to Glasgow, where she has continued to build a creative community.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She founded the Kore 9 Collective, a platform for underrepresented artists and DJs which runs events and workshops in Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We&#8217;ve just performed at our first paid festival,&#8221; Szeles said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I truly believe if I had to leave now, we would lose momentum and the collective would cease to exist.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: GoFundMe) Szeles is hoping to apply for the UK graduate visa, which costs \u00a31915, as her student visa is due to expire in October.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If her application successful, the visa would allow her to stay in the country for another year and eventually apply for the settlement scheme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the time of writing, the crowdfunder has raised \u00a3607 out of a \u00a3800 target.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Szeles added: &#8220;Staying here would mean that I would be able to continue the life that me and my parents have built for myself and that our collective hard work would not go to waste due to a lack of funds.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-bobo-pay-for-her-visa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to find out more information about the crowdfunder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bogi Szeles, an artist and DJ currently based in Glasgow, launched the GoFundMe fundraiser to help pay for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-343007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115025373018970286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}