Hungary’s supreme court has acquitted a camerawoman who was filmed tripping and kicking migrants at the border in 2015. Petra Laszlo had been sentenced to three years’ probation for her actions by a lower court. But the country’s top court ruled on Tuesday that she should have been charged with a misdemeanour not a criminal offence, …
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Rough sleeping will be banned in Hungary from October 15 when the government’s law on homelessness comes into force, giving police the power to remove homeless people from the streets and destroy any shelters they may have built. The law, banning “habitual residence in a public space”, was passed by parliament in June and has been called “cruel” …
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Two Hungarian opposition MPs were forcibly removed from the offices of state-run broadcaster MTVA on Monday morning after demanding their five-point petition be read on-air. The two politicians were among a group of opposition MPs who stayed overnight at the MTVA headquarters to ensure a recording of their petition would be broadcast. However, MTVA said …
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has exempted a mammoth pro-government media group from scrutiny by the national competition watchdog, according to a decree published late on Wednesday. Critics say the rightwing nationalist leader is presiding over a gradual disappearance of independent media in the ex-Communist satellite. Dozens of newspapers and broadcasters critical of Orban have …
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Hungarian authorities are systematically denying food to failed asylum seekers detained in the country’s border transit zones, say rights activists. The policy, whereby adults whose asylum claims have been rejected are denied food, was described as “an unprecedented human rights violation in 21st-century Europe” by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights organisation working to …
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Four human traffickers have been sentenced to life in prison by a Hungarian court for the deaths of 71 migrants found inside an abandoned truck in Austria, Reuters reported on June 20. The bodies of the migrants were found by police in August 2015, decomposing in the heat in the truck on the A4 highway which links Vienna …
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The Pécs District Prosecutor’s Office has charged two young Hungarians with assault causing bodily harm motivated by hate. The young men physically assaulted two citizens of Yemen, one of whom was enrolled as a university student in Pécs, while the other studied in Szeged. The attack occurred in front of a commercial establishment in Pécs …
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The Children’s Rights Committee of the Council of Europe said that in the migrant transit zones along the Serbian-Hungarian border, there is a lack of effective measures to protect child migrants and asylum seekers from sexual abuse. A report by the Children’s Rights Committee of the Council of Europe “deplores” the lack of effective measures …
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The UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe Gonzalez Morales, fiercely criticized Hungary’s treatment of migrants in recent years. He also accused the country’s government of hijacking the perceived threat posed by a falsely perceived migrant influx for political gains, perpetuating the ruling Fidesz Party’s strongly anti-immigrant stance. There was “no mass …
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Europol, the European police agency, issued a “Strategic Report” earlier Tuesday, saying that right-wing violence is on the rise in many EU states. The confidential report, cited by German media, says that the extremist groups seek to boost their “combat skills” by recruiting military and police members. The report noted that extremist groups are getting “increasingly popular …
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