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Hungary's System of Obtaining Secret Information Infringes Rights

The judgment of the European Court of Human Rights is now final: Hungarian law violates the rights of privacy and family life, and therefore the government must change its current regulations. The Strasbourg court...

by Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
(Image: Moyan Brenn)

The judgment of the European Court of Human Rights is now final: Hungarian law violates the rights of privacy and family life, and therefore the government must change its current regulations. The Strasbourg court rejected the request of the Hungarian state to revise its judgment concerning the obtaining of secret information for the purposes of national security, authorized only by a ministerial order. Earlier, two members of HCLU, Beatrix Vissy and Máté Szabó, submitted a complaint to the court against the ability of the Center for the Prevention of Terrorism to collect secret information.

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