Recognised refugees are potentially forced to homelessness and destitution 30 days after status recognition, as all integration support is cancelled and access to state-run health care is curbed. Asylum-seeking children are deprived of school enrollment … Read more
Information leaflets for asylum seekers are available in 10 languages! The publication was supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. They can be dowloaded here: English Arabic French Kurdish Hungarian Pashtu Persian Spanish … Read more
Refugees fleeing war, terror and persecution have to queue for days or weeks at the entrance of the EU, on the Serbian-Hungarian border, without food, drinking water, shelter or sanitary facilities, while Hungarian authorities arbitrarily … Read more
C-695/15
In 2011, a police officer halted the car of a man in the outskirts of the city of Tatabánya. After getting into an oral dispute (the HHC’s future client refused to hand over his ID … Read more
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee has been monitoring places of detention, prisons and police cells for 20 years. We believe that prison overcrowding is one of the most severe problems of the Hungarian penitentiary system, being … Read more
As a major advocacy success for the HHC, the European Commission launched an infringement procedure against Hungary for the violation of asylum-related EU law in December, after a record fast preparatory process. The Commission’s assessment … Read more
The HHC’s client, a young man, was placed in pre-trial detention in November 2007. In March 2008, he was transferred to the Bács-Kiskun County Penitentiary Institution for five days, where he was placed in a … Read more
In the last decade, the HHC’s attorneys have successfully litigated cases before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in relation to ill-treatment by the police. Therefore, the HHC has special interest in the execution … Read more
Appl. no. 62116/12
New asylum rules deny protection to refugees and lead to unprecedented human rights violations in Hungary
As of 15 September 2015 three new provisions were introduced to the Criminal Code, which violate the human rights of the refugees concerned. Short analysis of the HHC.
Quick fix to the myths
HHC Information Note on the changes to Asylum Act that took effect on 1 August 2015 and its expected impact
Border monitoring activities have been carried out in Hungary since 2006 under a tripartite cooperation agreement between the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the UNHCR Regional Representation and the National Police Headquarters.
Fair Trials and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee organized a practitioner training on 19-21 June in Budapest attended by lawyers from Croatia, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Hungary. The training provided presentations delivered by experts of the Fair Trials on the roadmap directives and a forum for discussion about the relevant practical experiences of the participating lawyers.
Short information material for those leaving Szeged to go to a reception centre.
The Hungarian government has filled the Constitutional Court with loyal judges to create a judicial rubber stamp for government interests, according to a study by the Eötvös Károly Institute, the HHC and the HCLU of recent Constitutional Court decisions.
Information note on Hungarian government plans to breach EU asylum law and to subject asylum-seekers to massive detention and immediate deportation
In its judgment issued today, the European Court of Human Rights set out that Hungary should produce within six months a plan for reducing overcrowding in its penitentiaries. The judgment concluded that the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment was violated with regard to the applicants detained in overcrowded cells, three of them being the clients of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee.