The law allows imprisonment for six months for criticizing the law.
Justice & Anti-CorruptionSlovakia
- Omissions
- The claim omits that the six-month prison sentence applies specifically to criticizing the 1947 Beneš decrees (land confiscations affecting ethnic Hungarians), not to criticizing laws in general.
- The claim presents the provision as a general law against criticizing any law, when it is in fact narrowly targeted at a specific historical legal settlement (the Beneš decrees).
- Sources
- SecondaryEUobserverThe president has signed a decree making it a criminal offence, with up to six months in prison, to criticise the land confiscations.
- SecondaryHungarian Human Rights Foundation (HHRF)Slovakia has amended its criminal code to make it punishable by up to six months in prison to publicly 'question' the legal settlement.