Hungarian Watchdog Denies Reports Of Consultations With Ombudsman’s Office

  • 23 Sep 2014 9:00 AM
Hungarian Watchdog Denies Reports Of Consultations With Ombudsman’s Office
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) did not hold consultations with the ombudsman’s office on the timing of a report about a scrapped needle-exchange programme in Budapest, the union’s drugs-policy expert said on Monday.

Speaking to public television M1, Péter Sárosi denied allegations that TASZ wanted the ombudsman’s office to delay publication of a report critical of the 8th district local council.

He said his NGO’s interest would have been to have the report published before the needle exchange programme was closed down in August.

A report in Friday’s Magyar Nemzet’s online edition suggested that someone from the office of László Székely, the ombudsman for fundamental rights, had shared information in a report prepared by the office concerning the programme for drug addicts with the rights NGO before it was published.

Contrary to claims by daily Magyar Nemzet, correspondence published by the paper on Friday were actually between two staff members of the ombudsman’s office, Sárosi insisted.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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