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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11089

28 May 2014
INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) hungary
ECHR says dismissal of Supreme Court president political

Brussels, 27/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - Andras Baka, the president of the Hungarian Supreme Court, was dismissed in 2012 because he had criticised Viktor Orban's government. This clearly breaches freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday 27 May.

The ECHR ruled that there was a breach of freedom of expression as Baka was dismissed because, when he was president of the Supreme Court, he had publicly criticised the government's policy on judicial...

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