President of HCLU Receives Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum Award

Balázs Dénes, President of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union has received the Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum Award from Attila Péterfalvi, Ombudsman (Parlamentarian Commissioner for Human Rights)

With the Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum Award, passed out for the first time this year, the enduring work of Balázs Dénes in the fields supervised by Attila Péterfalvi (protection of personal data and access to public-interest data) was honoured.

Upon receiving the award Balázs Dénes stated: 'I didn't receive this award alone. I consider the award recognition towards our efforts in defence of human rights, which the HCLU has been continously striving for in the past 13 years. The medal is the result of the efforts made by past and current HCLU staff.'

Share

Related articles

What Is The Problem With The Hungarian Law On Foreign Funded NGOs?

On 13 June 2017, the Hungarian National Assembly (Parliament) adopted the Act LXXVI of 2017 on the Transparency of Organisations Supported from Abroad (hereinafter: the Law). It obliges associations and foundations that receives at least 7.2 million HUF annually from foreign source to register with the court as an organization receiving foreign funding, to annually report about their foreign funding, and to indicate the label “organization receiving foreign funding” on their website and publications. The list of foreign funded NGOs is also published on a government website.

Read more »

Government decides on totalitarian refugee laws

With the use of the military inside the country and the reclassification of illegal border crossing from an offence to a crime, the government would put in force totalitarian practices before the change of the regime. Therefore, TASZ calls upon the parliamentarians to reject a law which ignores the basic requirements of constitutionality in light of the human rights crisis produced by the high number of refugees.

Read more »

HCLU Litigates Hungarian Service Providers to Terminate Data Retention

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) starts litigation against two major service providers in an attempt to force the Hungarian Constitutional Court (CC) to repeal an unlawful act.

Read more »