Krisztina Morvai’s written statement about the European Ombudsman report

Krisztina Morvai issued a written statement regarding the latest European Ombudsman report ignoring legal and human rights violations in Hungary during the past couple of years. Jobbik rejects the report and calls upon the EU to take a stand on the deteriorating human rights situation in Hungary.

The statement.

The European Ombudsman’s report doesn't echo the experiences, I encountered in Hungary, as a human rights activist. It doesn't mention the major event took place in the fall of 2006, when government controlled police attacked and injured hundreds of peaceful demonstrators, threw them into jail and started politically motivated lawsuits against them, while the EU didn’t do a thing.

Likewise, the EU is silent about the ongoing police harassment of citizens demanding social changes--police making intimidating identity checks, filming citizens, unlawfully hassling demonstrators and often arresting them.

The fact that 16 activists have been arrested under the false pretext of “terrorism” can be partly attributed to the EU's outrageous passivity in these matters. The “crime” of the detainees is that they started a movement aiming at uncovering government involved corruption.

During the arrests, the house searches and the methods of seizing evidence took place without the presence of witnesses involving blatant violation of European norms and legal procedures.

Police made house searches in the presence of masked commando units with the obvious intent of intimidation. They confiscated computers by disregarding legal procedures that involved not registering data on hard drives, making possible for police to compromise evidence, in order to aid authorities in the process of eliminating the opposition.

We call upon the EU to take a stand on these issues.

(morvaikrisztina.hu)