Alapjogi jogesetek – a strasbourgi Emberi Jogok Európai Bírósága

Abstract

The scope of Hungarian cases heard by the European Court of Human Rights proved quite uncommon in the recent period, at least from certain aspects. The Court’s Grand Chamber has held hearings in five Hungarian cases since last summer, which is an unprecedented number especially in the light of the two cases heard altogether by that panel in the last two decades. At the same time, the number of applications against Hungary moved the country up to the fifth position among Council of Europe Member States, following Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Italy. The subject matter of some recent decisions appears to be similarly unusual, as two of the cases in this review concerned the right to life, a provision violated by Hungary only once before. Apart from those cases, the Court examined the treatment of migrants by Hungarian authorities, the annulment of arcade game licences and the discrimination against a Roma applicant with regard to investigation of his ill-treatment.

The list of reviewed cases against other countries includes, among others, applications concerning the balancing of antiterrorist measures with fair trial rights, the donation of embryos conceived through medically assisted reproduction, the assessment of the degrading nature of a slap in face, and the criminal sanctioning of the denial of the Armenian genocide.