The approach to terrorist offences by means of criminal law in Hungary: A national report to the Third Session of International Forum on Crime and Criminal Law in the Global Era

Authors

  • Krisztina Karsai University of Szeged (Hungary)
  • Anna Neparáczki University of Szeged (Hungary)
  • Zsolt Szomora University of Szeged (Hungary)

Keywords:

Terrorist offences, Offences related to terrorism, Covert means and methods to detect terrorism, Human rights guarantees, International counter-terrorism activities.

Abstract

This paper aims at giving a detailed overview about the approach to terrorist offences by means of criminal law in Hungary, a little European country fortunately not affected by the grave consequences of international or domestic terrorism. Legal measures provided by both substantive and procedural criminal law will be described, and the participation of our country in international counter-terrorism activities and legal instruments will be outlined. Human rights aspects of counter-terrorism will also be kept in view. In this respect, it is to emphasize that the attempts of the Hungarian legislator to weaken procedural guarantees for the sake of more effective criminal proceedings in case of terrorism (and many other selected offences) have been found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court of Hungary.

Author Biographies

Krisztina Karsai, University of Szeged (Hungary)

a member of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Szeged (Hungary): Associate professor, vice dean of the Faculty of Law

Anna Neparáczki, University of Szeged (Hungary)

PHD Student.

Zsolt Szomora, University of Szeged (Hungary)

Associate Professor.

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Published

2012-07-25

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2012): Terrorismo

Section

Dossier Terrorism

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