Hungarian Helsinki Committee a possible contender for Nobel Peace Prize

Record ID: 1639384

  • Title: Hungarian Helsinki Committee a possible contender for Nobel Peace Prize
  • Date: 30th September 2021
  • Summary: ROSZKE, HUNGARY (FILE - MAY 2, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HUNGARY-SERBIA BORDER FENCE AND EXTERIOR OF TRANSIT ZONE VARIOUS OF CAMP GUARDS STANDING NEAR TRANSIT ZONE CAMP FENCE AND PEOPLE WALKING BEHIND FENCE VAMOSSZABADI, HUNGARY (FILE - MAY 22, 2020) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF RECEPTION CENTRE FOR MIGRANTS WOMAN WALKING INSIDE CAMP CHILD BEHIND OPEN DOOR FENCE AND MIGRANT FAMILY SITTING INSIDE CAMP WOMAN SITTING WITH CHILDREN GUARD OPENING CAMP DOOR, MIGRANT FAMILY WALKING OUT MIGRANT CHILD STANDING AT FENCE EGYPTIAN AND YEMENI MIGRANTS WALKING OUTSIDE CAMP GATE
  • Embargoed: 14th October 2021 11:36
  • Keywords: Hungarian Helsinki Committee Nobel Peace Prize nominees
  • Location: BUDAPEST, ROSZKE AND VAMOSSZABADI, HUNGARY
  • City: BUDAPEST, ROSZKE AND VAMOSSZABADI, HUNGARY
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: Europe,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA003EWXT7IF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights group based in Budapest, is among the contenders for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
    The organisation, which says it provides help to refugees, detainees and victims of violence by law enforcement, has been critical of the policies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
    It protested legislation, known as the "Stop Soros" law after Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros, which criminalised support for asylum seekers.
    It sued the government over so-called migrant transit zones on its borders, in which hundreds of refugees were kept in conditions described as "prisons" by those detained there.
    Hungary was forced to shut the zones and transfer detainees to migrant reception centres with better conditions, after the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled them unlawful.
    The Hungarian Helsinki Committee was nominated for the prize alongside Iustitia, a Polish judges association, by Norwegian lawmaker Jette Christensen.
    The 2021 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 8.
    (Production: Krisztina Fenyo, Lewis Macdonald)
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