Anybody may become defenceless in the face of the state’s power.
Partly as a result of the HHC’s advocacy efforts, a new body for examining complaints against the police, the Independent Police Complaints Board (IPCB) was established by a June 2007 amendment of the Police Act. … Read more
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee has been advocating for the ratification and the proper implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture. Below the most important steps and developments of the project can be consulted.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee takes part in a comparative research project ‘Effective Defence Rights in the European Union and Access to Justice: Investigating and Promoting Best Practices’ project. The project is the initiative of four … Read more
Authors: András Kádár, Balázs Tóth, István Vavró Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2007 ISBN: 978 963 86959 6 3
The Hungarian system of complaints against unlawful police action has been criticised being dysfunctional due to systemic and procedural reasons. The most important flaw was that the police rather than an independent body decided all … Read more
The lack of an efficient criminal legal aid system is especially detrimental to indigent pre-trial detainees and defendants in general. Fair and effective access to criminal justice to those who cannot afford to retain a … Read more
Documents related to the Fourth Periodic Report of Hungary
ID check is the most frequently used police measure in Hungary: on average, more than 1.5 million checks have been conducted in recent years. However, the practice of ID checks has not been analyzed so far. … Read more
The UN Independent Expert on minority issues (IEMI), Ms Gay McDougall paid a visit to Hungary in late June 2006. The HHC met with the Independent Expert and presented a briefing paper on issues related … Read more
Control(led) Group – Final Report on the Strategies for Effective Police Stop and Search (STEPSS) Project
Author: András Mink Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2005 ISBN: 963 86959 1 9
Analysing the system of ex officio appointed defense counsels
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s comments regarding the second monitoring cycle on Hungary under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (20 September 2004)
Author: András Kádár Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2004 ISBN: 963 216 939 5
Authors: János Eörsi, Zsuzsa Jelencsics, András Kádár, Iván Mándli, János Somogyi Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2002 ISBN: 963 00 9509 2
Edited by András Kádár, Hungarian Helsinki Committee Published by CEU Press, 2001 ISBN 978-963-9241-15-2
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s Police Jail Monitoring Program started in 1996, on the basis of an agreement concluded with the National Police Headquarters. The goal of the project is to monitor the conditions of detention … Read more