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Hungarian human rights and watchdog NGO. Rule of law, civil society space, asylum, refugees, detention, criminal justice 🇭🇺🇪🇺
Sep 3, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
🚨BREAKING🚨
HHC uncovers how #Hungary Chief Justice Varga Zs. unlawfully appointed several judges to the Kúria. Through an FoI, we obtained data that shows how he circumvented rules of appointment to place certain people in key positions. A short 🧵. One of the most well-known such individuals is Judge Hajas, previous secretary of state in Judit Varga’s Justice Ministry. Similarly to Chief Justice Varga Zs,. Hajas had no prior judicial experience, yet he was skyrocketed to the bench of the highest court in Hungary.
Jan 26, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
1. It's been over a month since the @EUCourtPress ruled that #Hungary #pushback legislation breaches EU law. HU authorities fully ignore the judgment (oh hello #RuleOfLaw) & continue pushbacks. 🚨4400+ have been carried out since last December 🚨. 2. We wrote to @Frontex on 7 January requesting that it reconsiders its presence in Hungary. A decision on this is pending according to the response we received.