Policing and criminal justice system in Hungary
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Demonstration plans draws mass protest
Plans by the ultra-right wing neo-Nazi Group for a Hungarian Future to hail the 60th anniversary of the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross take over in front of Budapest's Terror House Museum on 15 October have been widely criticised.
23 October 2004 (196 words)
Extreme-right leader arrested
The National Investigations Office has arrested Diana Bacsfi, leader of the extreme-right Group for a Hungarian Future (Magyar Jovo Csoport) on a charge of incitement against the community.
17 September 2004 (103 words)
Roma dies during arrest
An investigation has been launched into the death in July of a 19-year-old Roma man during his arrest by a Kecskemét policeman, who forcibly pinned him to the ground, forcing his head into the sand.
7 August 2004 (93 words)
Roma burnt to death in Zalaegerszeg prison
A Roma man burnt to death on 27 November at a prison in Zalaegerszeg.
5 December 2003 (101 words)
Pest County: police vendetta alleged
AI claims to have evidence of a police vendetta launched against a Roma community in Bag, Pest County, after a member of that community brought charges against a police chief and three officers who, during interrogation, placed a cord round his neck and tied him to a chair, covered his head with a plastic back and beat him with a plastic pipe.
1 January 2002 (170 words)
Incidents of police violence
Pest County: Roma boys injured in police shooting
1 January 2002 (286 words)
Roma prevented from filing complaint
Five Roma men who accuse the police of refusing to file a complaint of racial harassment managed to film, on video camera, an exposure of police attitudes towards them.
1 January 2002 (376 words)
Police officers stereotype Roma
Three sociologists who carried out an attitude survey on 1530 policemen have concluded that one in ten is explicitly racist and that a basic feature of the outlook of a Hungarian police officer is that Roma are inclined to crime.
1 October 1998 (93 words)
Police and anti-Roma racism
The ombudsman for national and ethnic minorities has told parliament that the most severe form of discrimination against minorities is prejudicial treatment during police investigation and that this phenomenon concerns mainly Roma.
1 August 1997 (354 words)
Romany representative councils established
A bill passed by the Hungarian parliament in September means that Romany representative councils with consultative status will be established in each of Hungary's 519 municipal and district communities.
1 March 1995 (91 words)
Protests from US embassy
Complaints from the US embassy about police raids has forced the Hungarian government to launch an investigation.
1 December 1994 (147 words)
Foreigners' crime up three-fold, say officials
Hungarian officials say that foreign criminals are committing more crime.
1 December 1994 (40 words)
New immigration law leads to massive police crackdown
Since harsh new immigration laws were brought into effect on 1 May, Hungarian police have embarked on a series of measures to enforce the law.
1 December 1994 (285 words)
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