The Right to Know

This one year project aims to make sure that no asylum-seekers, refugees or resident third-country nationals are excluded from protection, expelled from the EU or held in unlawful immigration detention with the abusive and arbitrary use of the national security argument, and that in such cases all those concerned can exercise their right to defence. By this, the project strives to find innovative responses to an acute need identified in Hungary, Poland and Cyprus, with a clear impact on European policy and practice. The project will combine a variety of methods, including evidence-gathering, domestic and European strategic litigation, as well as direct advocacy.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee is coordinating this EPIM funded project from January 2021 in collaboration with the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland) and Kisa (Cyprus).

REPORTS AND TEMPLATES:

• Comparative Report on Access to Classified Data in National Security Immigration Cases in Cyprus, Hungary and Poland
• Legal Template on EU and International Law Regarding Disclosure of Classified Information in Asylum and Return Procedures Based on National Security Grounds (The Legal Template is also available in Hungarian, Polish and Greek.)

INFORMATION UPDATES:

• Decree Justified by Pandemic Causes Immediate Risk of Refoulement without Access to an Effective Judicial Remedy
• National Security Grounds for Exclusion from International Protection as a Carte Blanche: Hungarian Asylum Provisions Not Compliant with EU Law

BLOGS:

• Rights of the Defence Non-Existent for Migrants when National Security is Involved?
• “I’m tired” – interview with Ms Gáborné Nagy, the “embodied national security risk”