Information for Ukrainian citizens and their families fleeing Ukraine (EN)
This document contains useful information if you are a Ukrainian citizen, a family member of a Ukrainian citizen or if you lived in Ukraine prior to 24 February.
This document contains useful information if you are a Ukrainian citizen, a family member of a Ukrainian citizen or if you lived in Ukraine prior to 24 February.
Interview with András Léderer, senior advocacy officer of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s refugee programme.
The Hungarian Government requested additional funding under the Recovery and Resilience Facility from the European Commission in the Prime Minister’s letter of 18 March 2022. Hungary’s Recovery and Resilience Plan is yet to be approved … Read more
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee provides regular, reliable information on the situation at the Ukrainian-Hungarian border and of refugees fleeing Ukraine due to the Russian invasion. Our updates on the protection situation in Hungary: 2 March … Read more
Our updated guide is available in four languages: Hungarian, English, Ukranian, Russian. Individuals fleeing from Ukraine have different options in Hungary based on their citizenship. This document collects the most important pieces of information. Detailed … Read more
Today the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), delivered its judgment in the case of an Afghan family who were held in the transit zone for 209 days in 2017. The Court found that the familiy had been unlawfully detained under inhuman conditions.
In the early hours of this morning the Russian armed aggression against Ukraine began and populated areas across the entirety of Ukraine are being shelled by Russian forces. People will inevitably start fleeing the armed … Read more
The empowerment course for refugees and migrants starts in March 2022
In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Croatia illegally expelled an Afghan family seeking asylum with their many children. The victim on whom the judgment in the case was based was a six-year-old girl, Madina, who had died. Her tragic death is a disturbing example of a ruthless migration policy similar to the practice in Hungary. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee intervened in the Strasbourg proceedings in order to promote the cause of asylum-seeking victims.
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A Conversation with Abouzar Soltani
Our new information update identifies five main points where Hungarian asylum legislation and practice regarding exclusion from international protection on national security grounds contradict EU law and jurisprudence. In summary: 1. The Hungarian law does … Read more
The story of Gáborné Nagy and her escape to Hungary from the Russian secret services was presented in detail in an article published by Eszter Neuberger in February 2021 on 444.hu. Now we talked to the client of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee about how her life and that of her family was affected by the fact that after 20 years the Hungarian authorities see her stay in the country as a risk to national security.
Following the Polish model, the Government wanted to use the Constitutional Court as a means of evading a Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgment that it did not like. However, in its … Read more
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee is working to support the social inclusion of refugees and migrants through their participation in a ten-session course.
Today the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found that the 2018 ‘Stop Soros’ law breaches EU law, after the European Commission took Hungary to court. The CJEU made it clear: threatening people … Read more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled last December that the indiscriminate push-back of asylum-seekers to Serbia was in breach of EU law. However, the Government did not abandon the illegal practice, but instead responded with another violation: following the Polish model, it intends to use the Hungarian Constitutional Court as a means of evading the enforcement of a binding CJEU judgment.
The demonisation of migrants is the first step leading to the attacks against those showing solidarity with them.
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, is being held accountable for illegally pushing back a Syrian family. The family was illegally deported to Turkey by Frontex in October 2016, shortly after arriving in Greece. It is the first time that Frontex through an action for damages is held responsible before the EU General Court for illegally deporting people and violating fundamental rights. Reports of similar pushbacks by Frontex have been piling up over the past years. The Syrian family is being represented by law firm Prakken D’Oliveira Human Rights Lawyers. Prakken D’Oliveira is supported by the Dutch Council for Refugees, BKB, Sea-Watch Legal Aid Fund and Jungle Minds.