The Curia rejected the legal action brought against the decision of the police to ban an assembly scheduled by the notification for 28 June 2025, whose purpose was as follows: “The rights protection organizations that notified the authority of the assembly claim that the police and the Curia unlawfully restricted their freedom of assembly, in violation of the provisions of the Fundamental Law of Hungary, the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Freedom of assembly is a fundamental right. The applicants are protesting against the erosion of their freedom of assembly because they believe that everyone in Hungary is entitled to it and that it must be preserved”.
On 27 June 2025, the Curia annulled the police’s earlier decision to ban the assembly and ordered the police to conduct new proceedings. During the repeated proceedings, the police held a consultation with the organisers on the same day and then issued a new decision prohibiting the holding of the assembly once again.
In their legal action, the plaintiffs argued that the police repeated, in essence, their earlier decision, which was annulled by the Curia, but they did not provide any evidence in that regard, even though the police based the substantial part of their later decision on new grounds. The plaintiffs did not even generally contest the new reasons. The plaintiffs should have demonstrated which findings in the later decision corresponded to those in the annulled decision, to what extent the new elements in the reasoning were new or identical to the previous ones, and, if they were new, to what extent and why they were prejudicial to them. In the absence of the foregoing, the legal action had to be rejected.
Budapest, 3 July 2025
Press and Protocol Unit of the Curia of Hungary