Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

Fidesz’s vice-president, Szilárd Németh, along with MPs of the governing parties, launched a verbal attack against several Hungarian civil society organisations that receive part of their funding from foreign donors.

48 human rights organizations have signed a letter asking King Hamad to cease its judicial harassment of human rights defenders and its violation of their right to freedom of expression.

A series of news reports on government corruption is followed by a surprising notice, delivered by motorcycle couriers, informing opposition newspaper employees that they no longer have a workplace.

34 IFEX members are supporting RSF’s initiative to create the position of a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Safety of Journalists.

IFEX members support the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union’s draft law to decriminalise libel and defamation of public officials

Hungarian authorities have denied the press entrance to refugee camps and transit centres. Police have beaten journalists with batons, broken their equipment, and thrown teargas at them, even when they identify themselves as members of the press.

The HCLU is calling on the government to provide refugees with basic services, in addition to giving them information packages about the asylum procedure, available health centres, and other relevant information. It also calls upon authorities to allow journalists and human rights groups to do their jobs freely.

The ruling, welcomed as a victory for freedom of thought and religion in Hungary, found the 2012 Church Act unjustified and ‘politically tainted’.