EU court rules that Hungary broke asylum law
Also no special protection to children and the vulnerable
17 December, 12:38In 2015, at the peak of a crisis which saw thousands of would-be migrants and refugees arriving in southeast Europe and heading north and west, Hungary stood in their way. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist anti-immigration government corralled migrants into transit zones and limited their ability to apply for asylum. The court found Hungary did not allow asylum seekers to leave detention while their cases were considered and offered no special protection to children and the vulnerable. Where asylum claims were rejected, in some cases "those nationals are forcibly escorted, by the police, from the other side of a fence erected a few metres from the border with Serbia, to a strip of land devoid of any infrastructure". This was deemed a breach of an EU directive establishing safeguards for the removal of illegal immigrants. (ANSA-AFP).