Court rules against Syrian migrant in personality rights lawsuit

A Budapest court on Friday rejected in a non-binding ruling a lawsuit filed against the government by a Syrian migrant seeking compensation for what he says were a violation of his personality rights in a 2017 government survey on public attitudes to migration. Ahmed H. spent 40 months in prison for inciting a riot in Sept 2015 on the Hungary-Serbia border. In its justification, the court said that though the government had indeed failed to clarify in the survey that Ahmed H. had only been sentenced until that point by a first-instance court, this was a negligible disadvantage for the plaintiff.