The European Commission on Thursday announced that it is sending legal complaints to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) concerning the rights of suspected criminals in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. The complaints against Hungary and the Czech Republic concern their failure, in the commission’s view, to properly implement EU rules on suspects’ right of access to a lawyer upon arrest. The Czech case specifically also concerns the right to inform someone else when detained. The case against Bulgaria, meanwhile, relates to EU rules on a suspect’s right to information during criminal p…