Венгрия

In 2024, all police officers (a total of 20,496) had to complete an online e-learning training course on hate crimes.

A part the implementation of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the Roma and Travelers Department of the Directorate General for Democracy and Human Dignity of the Council of Europe and the National Police Headquarters provided training on hate crimes, especially those targeting the Roma community, for 25 mentors. A total of 3,933 police officers received training in other internal police training.

In 2024, the Hungarian Prosecution Training Centre restructured its training of trainees and junior prosecutors. So far, 60 trainee prosecutors have participated in an 1.5-hour lecture on "Hate crimes".

On 14 February 2024, 40 junior prosecutors attended an hour-long lecture on "Options for effective action against hate crimes, decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the activities of the Working Group against Hate Crime, the Hate Crime Protocol of 2019".

A 45-minute lecture on "Hate Crimes" was given on 12 June 2024 to 122 participants at the online training of early-career prosecutors. The training is mandatory for selected prosecutors appointed for less than three years ago.

The meetings of the 33 deputy chief prosecutors of the capital and the counties in the criminal law section were partly devoted to more effective action against hate crimes, to the recognition, protection, and respectful treatment of victims, as well as to methodological issues in supervising and managing investigations. On 7 October 2024, these topics were discussed in a one-hour lecture.

On 16 October 2024, a mandatory training course for nearly 40 designated investigating prosecutors was held on "Current legal issues in the investigation of ill-treatment and coercive interrogation in official proceedings in the light of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights".

The Working Group Against Hate Crimes met once in 2024.

Notable case:

On 4 January 2024, the Battonya District Prosecutor's Office charged a defendant under Hungary’s hate crime provision (Section 216 – Violence against a member of a community). The man had approached and behaved aggressively towards a Roma family, including children, kicking and overturning a rubbish bin and shouting anti-Roma remarks and other offensive comments. After a female victim called the police, the defendant threatened to get his gun and shoot the Roma family while continuing his anti-Roma invective.