The Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) has commented on the adoption of amendments to Hungarian asylum legislation, which entered into force on 1 July 2013, in an Information Note. According to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the amendments introduce a separate...
This Monday (10/06), ahead of the European Parliament’s vote on Wednesday that formally adopted the recast Reception Conditions Directive, the Hungarian government amended its asylum legislation which will introduce the detention of asylum seekers for up to six...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that Austria violated an asylum seeker’s right to an effective remedy (Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights) against the decision to be sent back to Hungary under the Dublin regulation. Austria...
On 15 May, the Belgian government published a Royal Decree establishing its unchanged list of ‘Safe Countries of Origin’ of asylum seekers, which includes Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, FYROM and India. Asylum seekers originating from...