The updated information leaflet of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee on the legal provisions of the Hungarian asylum procedure is available now. The publication was supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The 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.
Fifty days after the latest legal changes entered into force on 28 March 2017, it transpires that the Hungarian asylum system has been reduced to the bare minimum through legislative and administrative measures.
On 11 April 2017 Hungary deported a seriously traumatised Afghan asylum-seeker to Bulgaria, where had been previously ill-treated by the authorities, despite the UN Human Rights Committee requesting Hungary not to do so. The HHC's Information Update is available online here.
On 14 February, the Hungarian government has submitted to Parliament a package of amendments to five acts. These proposed legal changes, which are extreme and flagrant violations of European Union asylum law and European and international human rights standards and European values, warrant an immediate and definite response by the European Commission and other EU institutions.
