WEBINAR – Access to Classified Data in National Security Related Immigration Cases
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee is organising a webinar from 9 AM to 3 PM on 17 October 2024 on ‘Access to Classified Data in National Security Related Immigration Cases’ together with the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR).
The webinar will explore the following topics with a variety of invited guest speakers:
- Relevant jurisprudence of CJEU and ECtHR
- The Right to Know in the European Union (comparative study)
- Role of domestic courts in national security cases
- Access to classified data under the Pact and the Law Enforcement Directive
Please find the full agenda, including speakers here.
Please register for the webinar until 6 October here. Participants from all Council of Europe Member States are welcome. Please note, that selection will be made to allow for an equal representation between applying countries.
ABOUT THE RIGHT TO KNOW 2 PROJECT:
Evoking national security concerns have become a blanket authorisation for some EU Member States to exclude asylum-seekers and refugees from protection, reject or withdraw residence permits of third-country nationals, expel, or arbitrarily detain them in immigration detention, sometimes indefinitely, without any meaningful control and without giving them the possibility to know at least the summary of the reasons why they are considered a threat to national security. This deprives them from any possibility of effective remedy and opens avenues for an uncontrolled, even abusive use of this argument for states with already questionable human rights and rule of law records. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee has been exploring these rights violations since 2021, first by focusing on problematic practices in Cyprus, Hungary and Poland. Since 2023 The Right to Know 2 project has a much wider, pan-European focus to map the issues related to access to classified data in national security immigration cases and to gather good practices. In the context of this project, the HHC produced a gap-filling, pan-European, comparative study on national practices, which will also be explored during the webinar.
The webinar is organised in the context of ‘The Right to Know 2‘ project in coordination with ECRE and HFHR. The project is funded by the European Philanthropic Initiative for Migration (EPIM).