Mijatovic calls on Hungary parliament to reject sovereignty package
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Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, on Monday called on the Hungarian parliament to reject a package of bills for setting up a sovereignty protection office “that would be vested with broad powers to investigate any organisation or person suspected of serving foreign interests or threatening national sovereignty”.
As we wrote before, The government has submitted to lawmakers a draft bill on protecting national sovereignty and an amendment to the Fundamental Law which opens up the possibility of establishing a Sovereignty Protection Office, details HERE.
The bill, if adopted, posed “a significant risk to human rights”, she said.
According to the commissioner, the new office would have “unlimited authority to request sensitive data and private information from anyone, without oversight and without any legal remedy.”
The draft is “so vague that the invasive scrutiny of the proposed office could be weaponised against anybody who may be considered an adversary due, for instance, to activities aimed at influencing democratic debate,” she said.
This woman should be concentrating on countries where human rights are not respected, e.g. Ukraine and China. Why was she allowed in the country? Leftist zealots should be kept out.