rights

14/12/2015

Szekely flag became the flag of Harghita county

According to origo.hu, the official representative body of the county government adopted the Szekely/Szekler flag at the meeting held in Zetelaka on Friday. The Democratic Alliance […]
03/12/2015

Human Rights Watch criticises Hungary over conditions of migrants

Budapest, December 2 (MTI) – Asylum seekers and immigrants in Hungary are detained for too long and often under unacceptable conditions, the international Human Rights Watch […]
28/11/2015

They told her to go home from the emergency department, because she didn’t speak Romanian

It happened in the Transylvanian town of Hungarian majority, Sepsiszentgyörgy. Because she couldn’t speak Romanian, the doctor from the emergency department told her to go home […]
15/10/2015

US freedom of religion report gives mixed assessment of Hungary

Washington, October 15 (MTI) – The US Department of State’s latest report on religious freedom issued on Wednesday established that Hungary’s constitution guaranteed the freedom of […]
12/10/2015

European Court rejects migrants’ appeal against expulsion from Hungary

Budapest, October 12 (MTI) – The European Court of Human Rights has thrown out an appeal by two Bangladeshi nationals, represented by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, […]
23/09/2015

Hungarian government calls on Ukraine to observe European standards

Budapest, September 23 (MTI) – The State Secretariat for Hungarian Communities Abroad said it regrets the decision by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine to rearrange […]
13/08/2015

Diplomats discuss corruption issues at Sziget festival

Budapest, August 13 (MTI) – Diplomats of several western countries noted the grave social and economic consequences of corruption at a press conference held at the […]
08/07/2015

Several church law provisions breach human rights, says top court

Budapest, July 8 (MTI) – The Constitutional Court has ruled that certain provisions of the Hungarian church law and a related government decree are in breach […]
02/07/2015

Supreme Court maintains possibility of real life sentence in Hungary

Budapest (MTI) – The Kuria, Hungary’s supreme court, ruled on Wednesday that the possibility of meting out real life sentence without parole should be maintained in […]
26/06/2015

US State Department highlights human rights issues in Hungary

Washington (MTI) – The US Department of State mentioned actions against civil groups, curbing media pluralism and discrimination against the Roma minority among the gravest human […]
04/06/2015

Romanian authorities exaggerate over the aspirations of the Hungarian community

The ActiveWatch Media Monitoring Agency, a Bucharest based human rights organization that militates for free communication for public interest, speak about an overreaction of the Romanian […]
01/06/2015

Appeals court rules for new proceedings in Biszku case

Budapest, June 1 (MTI) – A municipal appeals court on Monday annulled a lower court ruling in the case of Bela Biszku, Hungary’s interior minister in […]
01/06/2015

Prosecutor highlights role in tackling graft

Budapest, June 1 (MTI) – The tendency in tackling corruption cases by the Hungarian authorities has been favourable in recent years, but work in this respect […]
13/05/2015

The Research Institute of National Policies: the President of the Venice Commission questions the work of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention

The declarations of the President of the Venice Committee made at a Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár conference weaken the effectiveness European minority protection mechanisms and question the work of […]
05/05/2015

The Romanian minority model: conference on minority protection without the participation of minorities

Last week a bizarre conference took place at Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár, aimed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Framework Convention for the Protection of Minority Rights, organized […]
22/04/2015

Painting on Hungarian inscriptions has become alarmingly common in Romania

Another Hungarian inscription has been painted on in Transylvania, this time at Nicolești/Káposztásszentmiklós. The perpetrators have written an obscene message on the table, adressed to the […]
21/04/2015

5000 RON fine for bilingual street signs in Romania

Two volunteers of a civic movement for linguistic rights (CEMO) were fined each for 5000 RON by the local police at Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș) for placing […]
13/04/2015

Another Hungarian inscription was painted in Gheorgheni/Györgyfalva

Another Hungarian inscription was painted, this time in Gheorgheni, in county Cluj, nearby Cluj Napoca. In localities predominantly inhabited by Hungarians, the names of the localities […]
19/03/2015

Initiative to set up “provocator” database illegal, says authority

Budapest, March 19 (MTI) – Collecting information on “provocators”, setting up a database and publishing such data would violate data protection rules, Attila Peterfalvi, head of […]
11/03/2015

Szekely Freedom Day: commemorations and protests – Photos

A peaceful commemoration was organized in Marosvasarhely (in Romanian: Târgu Mureș), protest were organized throughout Szekelyfold on the occasion of THE Szekely Freedom Day, mno.hu says. […]