In our new policy brief, we discuss the key systemic deficiencies that the Hungarian authorities should address in order to prevent, investigate and sanction police ill-treatment adequately and more effectively – and in order to execute the ECtHR’s related judgments.
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Fourteen Hungarian civil society organisations have submitted a joint appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, asking the court to declare that the anti-civil act on "foreign funding" violates the groups' fundamental rights.
Continue ReadingThe Hungarian Helsinki Committee's information update provides an overview of the interim measures granted by the European Court of Human Rights or the United Nations Human Rights Committee in applications against Hungary between January and May 2017. The update includes a summary of all cases, including their implementation by the Hungarian authorities. The information update is available online here.
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The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, together with other 14 Hungarian human rights NGOs have urged the respective committee to recommend that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe rejects the candidates nominated by the Hungarian Government to be the next Hungarian judge at the European Court of Human Rights.
Continue ReadingThe Hungarian Helsinki Committee – together with 10 other NGOs – sent an open letter to the Minister of Justice requiring him to withdraw the list of candidates to the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights and select candidates in a procedure that meet the requirements of Council of Europe norms. The NGOs main concern is the failure to carry out a transparent and fair selection procedure.
Continue ReadingOn 23 December 2011, MPs and activists of the opposition party Politics Can be Different (Lehet Más a Politika, LMP) formed a human chain around the Parliament, chaining themselves to objects at the entrance of the building in protest against Government Bills in their view threatening democracy, due to be voted on that day.
Continue ReadingThe Hungarian Helsinki Committee wrote a policy paper that aims to clarify how the European Court of Human Rights, in its evolving jurisprudence, interprets the requirement of individualisation when defining the threshold for a real risk of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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