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When will the surveillance of Hungarian citizens stop?

standpoint 2016-09-06 | Fb Sharing

EKINT is asking the Minister of Interior and the Minister of Justice how they plan to cease the unlawful situation of secret surveillances.

Eötvös Károly Policy Institute (EKINT) requests information in open letter from Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér and Minister of Justice László Trócsányi on how they plan to cease the unlawful situation of secret surveillances and how they intend to ensure the rule of law.

As is known, on 12th January 2016 the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of Vissy and Szabo v. Hungary (which was launched by the former director of EKINT, Máté Szabó and a former employee of EKINT, Beatrix Vissy) that the Hungarian regulation of covert surveillance carried out under a ministerial permit breaches the European minimum-requirements.

The judgement became legally binding on 7th June 2016 but the government still has not ceased this unlawful situation and has not adjusted the Hungarian law to the European requirements.


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