ERRC Hungary: Report on Meeting with Chief of Police

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Subject: ERRC Hungary: Report on Meeting with Chief of Police

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ERRC Hungary: Report on Meeting with Chief of Police


August 23, 1999
 
Report on European Roma Rights Center Meeting with Major General Dr
Peter Orban, High Commissioner of the National Hungarian Police
Headquarters, on the Subject of Police Abuse and Racially Motivated
Crime in Hungary 
 
On Wednesday October 18, representatives of the European Roma Rights
Center (ERRC) met with Major General Dr Peter Orban, High Commissioner
of the Hungarian National Police. The explicit purpose of the meeting
was to present ERRC concerns about police abuse in the eastern
Hungarian town of Hajduhadhaz. However, the meeting provided an
opportunity to discuss the problems of police abuse in Hungary in
general; anti-Romani sentiment in the Hungarian police force; and the
ineffective application of penal code provisions pertaining to
racially motivated crime. A summary of the discussion with High
Commissioner Orban follows.
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>From the moderator: The full text of the report is available online at
the ERRC website:
http://errc.org/publications/letters/hu_aug_23_99.shtml
Boris 
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