NGO mulls police ID request restriction

The Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) is working to remove the right of police to ask for identity cards, observing that it is unique in, and unworthy of, a European democracy that police officers in Hungary can check ID papers without giving any reason.

TASZ chairman Balázs Dénes said "there are no powers to ask for someone's identity papers on a general basis in democracies with a long historical past, as this is a tradition that goes back to the party state era."

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