| Author (Corporate) | Human Rights Watch |
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| Series Title | Press Release |
| Series Details | 13.07.16 |
| Publication Date | 13/07/2016 |
| Content Type | News |
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In a statement issued on the 13 July 2016 Human Rights Watch claimed that migrants at Hungary’s border were being summarily forced back to Serbia, in some cases with cruel and violent treatment, without consideration of their claims for protection. New laws and procedures adopted in Hungary over during 2015-16 forced all asylum seekers who wished to enter Hungary to do so through a transit zone on Hungarian territory, to which the government applied a legal fiction claiming that persons in the zone had not yet ‘entered’ Hungary. Human Rights Watch found that while some vulnerable groups were transferred to open reception facilities inside Hungary, since May 2016 the Hungarian government had been summarily dismissing the claims of most single men without considering their protection needs. The UN Refugee Agency said on the 15 July 2016 that it was deeply concerned that asylum-seekers were reportedly being forced back across the border into Serbia under the new Hungarian regulations and called for an investigation into reports that they were being subjected to violence and abuse. The number of refugees and migrants at the Serbian-Hungarian border had reached more than 1,400, the agency said. |
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| Source Link | https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/07/13/hungary-migrants-abused-border |
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| Subject Categories | Justice and Home Affairs, Values and Beliefs |
| Countries / Regions | Hungary, Serbia |
