Does bias (not) count!?
2013. 05. 09.
The police failed to consider that the assault on the Chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Association bears an anti-Semitic bias and failed to investigate the incident as hate crime despite ...
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HHC briefing for CPT periodic visit to Hungary
2013. 04. 24.
HHC met members of the CPT delegation to Hungary in April 2013.
Police officers convicted for participating in ill-treatment
2012. 11. 19.
During the riots in the autumn of 2006, X. Y. was ill-treated by police officers while being escorted to a police van after his apprehension. The case was witnessed by ...
Police fail to admit inappropriate action
2012. 09. 17.
Police again fail to properly qualify cases as racial violence. Instead of investigating racial motives and considering recent incidents in Cegléd, violence against a member of a community, focuses ...
Representing opposition party protesters
2012. 09. 10.
On 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 ...
Pre-trial detention case before the European Court of Human Rights
2012. 08. 08.
In July 2012 the HHC submitted an application to the European Court of Human Rights in a case of a 50-year old truck driver with clear criminal record. In 2011 ...
Damages for heavy sedation in detention
2012. 06. 11.
The HHC’s client was transferred two times to the Judicial and Observation Psychiatric Institute (IMEI) while being in pre-trial detention, since in the respective penitentiary institution’s view he was dangerous ...
Effective monitoring to prevent torture: promoting OPCAT
2012. 05. 17.
The aim of the conference organised by the HHC and the MDAC was to prepare Hungary for the operation of the body monitoring the treatment of persons deprived of their ...
Comments on draft new Criminal Code
2012. 03. 12.
The HHC's 28-page long comments on the draft Criminal Code, published in February 2012. Criminal statistics do not warrant increasingly harsh penal policies planned by the government. Legal institutions that ...
