The Hungarian life imprisonment regime in front of apex courts II. - The findings of the Kúria (Supreme Court)
The regulation of whole life sentences varies in the Member States, however there seems to be a European consensus on granting some form of a meaningful review for possible conditional release from life imprisonment after the expiry of a long-term period spent in prison. Hungary was among the few Member States of the EU and the Council of Europe to have a sanction regime including whole life sentences without the possibility of review for conditional release, until the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter: ECtHR, Court or Strasbourg court) ruled on the matter and in Magyar v Hungary (Application no. 73593/10, 20 May 2014) declared the Hungarian life imprisonment regime to be in violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter: ECHR or Convention). Last week the Kúria, the supreme court of Hungary had to remedy the human rights violation done to the whole life prisoner winning the Strasbourg case. In the review procedure Mr. Magyar was sentenced to life imprisonment with a possibility of conditional release after 40 years the earliest. In the present blog post the judgment will be analyzed in light of the ECHR and the attached case-law.





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Május 14.-én Intézetünk és az Országos Kriminológiai Intézet

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Az Igazságügyi Minisztérium a közelmúltban közzétett egy törvénytervezetet, amely a hálapénz büntetőjogi megítélésére is figyelemmel módosítaná a büntető kódex vonatkozó rendelkezését. A következőkben a tervezett szabályozás elemzése mellett egy, a kérdés szabályozására vonatkozó alternatív javaslat kerül bemutatásra.

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