Hungarian Helsinki Committee

The HHC is a member of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles.

[2] The Hungarian Helsinki Committee specializes on 3 topics[3] - managing projects, legal cases and publishing reports, analyses, and articles mostly in them: ● Rule of law - defending individuals, organisations, and society against the government's abuse of power ● Refugee and migrant rights - legal aid and representation to people who had to flee their home countries ● Justice - working for a fair criminal justice system, prisoners and their families, stepping up against police ill-treatment When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, war refugees arrived in a wholly demolished asylum system in Hungary, lacking the institutional capacity to cater for their needs.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee's monitoring team was on the Ukrainian-Hungarian border collecting first-hand information already on the second day of the war.

[4] It also created a specific email address and a landing page,[5] and is conducting monitoring and legal assistance visits to the border area and diverse locations where Ukrainian refugees are accommodated all around the country ever since.

In addition, the Court consequently ruled that the detention conditions in the transit zone amounted to inhuman treatment in the case of children and pregnant women.