EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY FENCE PRISONERS Hungary readies fence, emergency measures to stem influx

Record ID: 139968

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY FENCE PRISONERS Hungary readies fence, emergency measures to stem influx
  • Date: 11th September 2015
  • Summary: HUNGARY-SERBIA BORDER, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 11, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WIRE FENCE ALONG BORDER PRISONERS ESCORTED BY POLICE MARCHING BESIDE FENCE VARIOUS OF PRISONERS MIGRANTS WALKING ALONG RAIL TRACKS TO BORDER POLICE CAR DRIVING ALONG WIRE FENCE GROUP OF MIGRANTS STOPPING ON RAIL TRACKS TWO GUARDS WALKING BESIDE FENCE MIGRANTS WALKING ON RAIL TRACKS POLICE CAR DRIVING BESIDE FENCE
  • Embargoed: 26th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAF3RQBT1980023B9CEHYZJPHIJ
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    Hungary pressed on with building a fence along its border with Serbia on Friday (September 11) which it expects to finish by early October.
    Authorities said on Thursday Hungary would call a "state of crisis" next week as the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban readies a clampdown on migrants and refugees streaming through the Balkans.
    Hungary is planning to introduce "different rules of the game" from next week, with penalties for illegal entry, accelerated asylum procedures and possible expulsion back over the border, authorities said on Thursday.
    The fence, in part being built by prisoners along the 175-km. (109-mile) border, is expected to be completed sooner than planned, by the beginning rather than the end of October, according to Hungarian authorities.
    Over 176,000 migrants and refugees, many of them fleeing the Syrian war, have been recorded entering Hungary over the European Union's external border this year en route to the richer and more generous countries of western and northern Europe. Many more may have entered undetected, slipping through the hands of over-stretched border police.
    Hungary has declared Serbia, an impoverished former Yugoslav republic still years away from joining the European Union, to be a safe country for refugees to seek asylum.
    That gives Budapest the right to turn down any and all asylum requests from people entering across that border.
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