Police violated six fundamental rights during the October 23 commemorations this year, civil rights ombudsman Máté Szabó said in a report issued on Wednesday.
His staff found that police had been ordered to ask for the identity cards of those who wore ribbons with the Hungarian national colours or those who carried a whistle on Kossuth tér.
Szabó ruled that the wearing of emblems is a form of expressing an opinion, and that the police measures had violated this right.
It was also unlawful, he declared, that police had set up cordons at the site of the remembrances and that people were allowed to enter only after they were frisked.
