“The proposal to establish an ‘Office for the Defence of Sovereignty’ in Hungary, that would be vested with broad powers to investigate any organisation or person suspected of serving foreign interests or threatening national sovereignty, poses a significant risk to human rights and should be abandoned”, said Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, on Monday 27 November.
Proposed by the Hungarian Ministry of Justice on 21 November in an amendment to...