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null Commissioner for Fundamental Rights Hosts Heads of Hong Kong Correctional Services

Commissioner for Fundamental Rights Hosts Heads of Hong Kong Correctional Services

Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Dr. Ákos Kozma received Commander of the Hong Kong Correctional Services Mr. Kwok-hing WONG, Head of the Incarceration Department of the Hong Kong Correctional Services Mr. Siu-hang CHAN and Governor of Tai Tam Gap Prison Mr. Kee-hang NG and their delegation at his office on 28 February 2024. The meeting was attended by Director General of the Hungarian Prison Service Headquarters, Lieutenant General Dr. Tamás Tóth, as well as Deputy Director General for Security and Incarceration, Major General Mr. János Schmehl.


During the meeting, Dr. Ákos Kozma provided information on the responsibilities and competences of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary, with special regard to the tasks performed in the framework of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), and his activities performed in the field of the rights protection of the most vulnerable social groups.



Since 1 January 2015, in addition to his general rights protection activities, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary has performed the tasks related to the national preventive mechanism under Article 3 of the Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture and other Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, promulgated by Act CXLIII of 2011. In the context of the operation of the NPM, the Ombudsman inspects penitentiary institutions, police detention rooms, homes for persons with disabilities, as well as children’s homes and old-age homes.

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2024. február. 28.

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