Aktivisták

Litigation on the right to protest

Two actions were launched by the HCLU regarding the right to peaceful assembly in December, 2013. Both actions concern to the same problem: lockdown of a public area around the Prime Minister's residence. In the first case, the police dispersed an ongoing peaceful demonstration on the grounds of closing off the area, for which the organizer filed a claim against the police with the help of HCLU. In the other case, another demonstration planned by the same organizer at the same venue was banned by the court, which was then challenged before the Constitutional Court. Both decisions are ill-unfounded and misinterpret the constitutional limitations of the right to protest.

A Court had to Overturn the Actions of the Police and the Counterterrorism Center

The Metropolitan Court of Budapest invalidated the decision of Budapest’s chief police officer that effectively banned an announced demonstration at the Prime Minister’s residence. The decision also found that closing the area, in order to prevent the demonstration, violated the law. The HCLU welcomes the decision by the court which stated that “limiting a peaceful demonstration because it is held in the presence of a high level official but otherwise serves as an expression of a political opinion is unnecessary in a democratic society.”

A gyülekezési jog új szabályozása

A TASZ véleményezte azt a 2013. május 23-án közzétett BM rendelettervezetet, amely módosítja a gyülekezési joghoz kapcsolódó rendőrségi feladatokról szóló hatályos BM rendeletet.A TASZ álláspontja szerint a tervezet több szempontból is elhibázott, átgondolatlan, ezért annak visszavonását javasoljuk.A részletes álláspontunkat itt elolvashatja.A BM rendelettervezetét innen töltheti le.