Control(led) Group – Final Report on the Strategies for effective Police stop and Search (STEPSS) Project
Authors: András Kádár, Júlia Körner, Zsófia Moldova, Balázs Tóth
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2008
ISBN: 978-963-88228-1-9
Topic: Justice
Anybody may become defenceless in the face of the state’s power.
A Matter of Trust – Research on Complaints Filed Against Police Measures in 2005
Author: Ildikó Ritter
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2008
ISBN: 978-963-87757-2-6Advocating the Abolishment of Actual Life Sentence (2008-2009)
Lifelong imprisonment without the possibility of parole (actual life sentence) was introduced into Hungarian criminal law in 1998. Hungary and the UK are the only EU Member States whose legal system makes it possible to impose a so-called “actual life sentence” on perpetrators of serious crimes.
Submissions to the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
Comments of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee: The Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s comments to the Third Report on Hungary by ECRI (26 March 2008) The Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s comments regarding the developments following the Second Report on Hungary by ECRI … Read more
Promoting the Idea of Establishing Independent Police Complaints Bodies in the CEE Region (2008-2009)
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
Promoting Ratication of the OPCAT and the NPM’s operation (2008-2013)
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.
Effective Defense Rights in the EU and Access to Justice: Investigating and Promoting Best Practices (2008-2009)
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
Without Defense – Recommendations for the Reform of the Hungarian Ex Officio Appointment System in Criminal Matters
Authors: András Kádár, Balázs Tóth, István Vavró
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2007
ISBN: 978 963 86959 6 3Reforming Police Complaint Mechanisms (2007-2008)
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 Right to Effective Defense and the Reform of the Ex Officio Appointment System (2007-2009)
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
Report to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT)
Documents related to the Fourth Periodic Report of Hungary
Strategies for Effective Police Stop and Search (STEPSS) project (2007-2008)
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. Therefore, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee sought to assess the typical grounds of ID checks and the efficiency of this police measure in the framework of a project financially supported by the European Commission’s AGIS Program and the Open Society Institute. It was also examined whether there is a discriminatory tendency regarding ID checks, namely if members of the Roma minority are ID checked in unjustified and disproportionate numbers compared to their non-Roma peers.
Briefing paper for the UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues
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
Report on police stop and search practice
Control(led) Group – Final Report on the Strategies for Effective Police Stop and Search (STEPSS) Project
The Defendant: the State – The Story of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee
Author: András Mink
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2005
ISBN: 963 86959 1 9Model Legal Aid Board Program (2005-2007)
Analysing the system of ex officio appointed defense counsels
Comments regarding the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
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)
Presumption of Guilt – Injurious Treatment and the Activity of Defense Counsels in Criminal Proceedings against Pre-trial Detainees
Author: András Kádár
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2004
ISBN: 963 216 939 5Double Standard – Prison Conditions in Hungary
Authors: János Eörsi, Zsuzsa Jelencsics, András Kádár, Iván Mándli, János Somogyi
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Budapest, 2002
ISBN: 963 00 9509 2Police in Transition
Edited by András Kádár, Hungarian Helsinki Committee
Published by CEU Press, 2001
ISBN 978-963-9241-15-2