Hungary: prosecutor acts on ECPMF fact finding mission report
One year after a group of journalists were beaten up and detained by police guarding the Serbian-Hungarian border, the state prosecutor has started a special investigation.
Balàzs Nagy Navarro, an award-winning Hungarian journalist who chairs the Supervisory Board of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, has given evidence. It was based on ECPMF’s fact- finding mission to discover what happened in the Röszke incident. Nagy Navarro, who led the ECPMF fact-finding mission, says:
It is a very important step that the Hungarian Prosecutor’s Office opened this investigation. We consider it as sign that – despite the Hungarian government’s insistence…
