Published on 8 January 2024

FIRST SECTION

Application no. 54953/21 Mátyás RIGÓ against Hungary lodged on 4 November 2021 communicated on 6 December 2023

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The application concerns requests by the applicant to attend the funerals of his mother and brother. At the material time the applicant was serving a prison sentence for robbery and other related crimes in Tököl Prison.

The applicant’s mother died on an unspecified date in the spring of 2021. The applicant requested the prison commander to allow for a release from prison to attend her funeral on 4 May 2021. The commander refused the request on 5 May 2021.

The applicant’s brother died on 23 May 2021 and the applicant’s request to attend his funeral, scheduled for 3 June 2021, was refused by the commander on 4 June 2021.

The applicant complains, under Article 8 of the Convention, about the refusal to release him from prison so that he could attend the funeral of his mother and later the funeral of his brother.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Has there been a violation of the applicant’s right to respect for his private and family life, within the meaning of Article 8 of the Convention, due to the refusal of the prison authorities to authorise his release in order that he could attend his mother’s and later his brother’s funeral?