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Dániel Karsai, Hungary euthanasia campaigner, dies aged 47

Top government officials had expressed compassion for Dr Karsai.

“We stand with him, we sympathise with him, we wish him much strength”, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told reporters in December 2023, adding “and if he allows us, we will also pray for him”.

But Orban and his governing Fidesz party refused to change the law – something only they had the power to do due to their large parliamentary majority.

The Ministry of Justice insisted that the right to life, enshrined in the constitution of 2011, was inviolable.

In June 2024, the European Court of Human Rights – Mr Karsai’s former workplace – ruled in favour of the Hungarian government’s argument that the denial of euthanasia was not an infringement of his fundamental rights as a Hungarian citizen.

In September, the European Court of Justice also ruled against him.


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