{"id":7155,"date":"2005-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/hclu-uses-strategic-litigation-as-a-tool-in-needle-exchange-advocacy-fight\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:00:20","slug":"hclu-uses-strategic-litigation-as-a-tool-in-needle-exchange-advocacy-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/hclu-uses-strategic-litigation-as-a-tool-in-needle-exchange-advocacy-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"HCLU uses Strategic Litigation as a tool in Needle Exchange Advocacy Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union&rsquo;s (HCLU) Legal Aid Service, Andrea Pelle is representing a collegue from HCLU and the biggest Hungarian NEP in Budapest in a strategic litigation&ndash;type criminal procedure. The social worker, followed by the media reports himself with sterile and used syringes at the Budapest Chief Prosecutor&rsquo;s Office on the World AIDS Day, 12.00 Budapest time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"folderdesc\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drogriporter.hu\/image.php?pic_id=14052&amp;op=cs_content\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"folderdesc\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">dr. Andrea Pelle and Istv\u00e1n G\u00e1bor Tak\u00e1cs<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"folderdesc\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">front of the Prosecutor&rsquo;s Office building<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"folderdesc\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">Source: <a class=\"formattedtext_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.online.rtlklub.hu\/hirek\/hazank\/?id=0512212861\"><font color=\"#0080c0\">RTL Klub News, 1st of December 2005<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"folderdesc\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">HCLU&rsquo;s aim with the action is to address a legal statement of the Hungarian Chief Prosecutor&rsquo;s Office. In the critized statement, the Office declared <em style=\"\">&bdquo;any kind of activity, related to illegual drug use&rdquo; <\/em>as a relevant reason to start a criminal procedure. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">This time it is not the Police, but the other main law enforcement agency, the Persecutor&rsquo;s Office is the one which sees Needle Exchange Programs as a possible criminal investigations&rsquo; targets. The Budapest Police Headquarter actually has a valid agreement with Budapest NEP providers not to harras needle exchange services and clients. But when the service providers aimed to develop that agreement to a nationwide-one, the Chief Prosecutor of Hungary raised its voice against the agreement with the legal statement above.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">HCLU uses Strategic Litigation in this case to make it clear: is a social worker who carries steryle and used syringes while working for a NEP is a criminal, or someone who should be supported for his valuable harm reduction services? Hungary&rsquo;s official National Drug Strategy &#8211; together with the relevant international organizations &#8211; states the later option, but the country&rsquo;s Chief Prosecutor seems to go with the first one. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">Questions?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"mailto:dnsbali@tasz.hu\">dnsbali@tasz.hu<\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">+36-209-21-88-64<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">Bal\u00e1zs D\u00e9nes<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">Executive Director<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">HCLU<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union&rsquo;s (HCLU) Legal Aid Service, Andrea Pelle is representing a collegue from HCLU and the biggest Hungarian NEP in Budapest in a strategic litigation&ndash;type criminal procedure. The social worker, followed by the media reports himself with sterile and used syringes at the Budapest Chief Prosecutor&rsquo;s Office on the World <a href=\"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/hclu-uses-strategic-litigation-as-a-tool-in-needle-exchange-advocacy-fight\/\"> [&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2900],"tags":[],"countries":[],"section":[],"video-author":[],"drug":[],"archive":[3214,3222],"video-series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-articles","7":"archive-drug-policy-and-law","8":"archive-harm-reduction","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"P\u00e9ter S\u00e1rosi","author_link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/author\/sarosip-2\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>HCLU uses Strategic Litigation as a tool in Needle Exchange Advocacy Fight - Drugreporter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/hclu-uses-strategic-litigation-as-a-tool-in-needle-exchange-advocacy-fight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HCLU uses Strategic Litigation as a tool in Needle Exchange Advocacy Fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Head of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union&rsquo;s (HCLU) Legal Aid Service, Andrea Pelle is representing a collegue from HCLU and the biggest Hungarian NEP in Budapest in a strategic litigation&ndash;type criminal procedure. 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He is a human rights activist and drug policy expert, the founder and editor of the Drugreporter website since 2004, the author of countless articles, co-author of books and director of films about harm reduction and drug policy reform. He was the Director of the Drug Policy Program at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union between 2004 and 2015. He is experienced in working at international drug policy forums such as the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. He was twice elected to the Core Group of the EU Civil Society Forum on Drugs. He is the co-chair of the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network. He has been representing the Hungarian Harm Reduction Network at the government\u2019s drug advisory body in Hungary since 2007. Peter also contributed to building a network of advocacy NGOs in Europe: the European Drug Policy Initiative. He provided technical assistance to several NGOs, and launched several campaigns on drug policy reform. 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