EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY FENCE PRISONERS UPDATE Migrants cross paths with prisoners building fence along Hungarian border

Record ID: 140012

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/HUNGARY FENCE PRISONERS UPDATE Migrants cross paths with prisoners building fence along Hungarian border
  • Date: 11th September 2015
  • Summary: ROSZKE, HUNGARY (SEPTEMBER 11, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING ALONG TRAIN TRACKS AS PRISONERS WAIT VARIOUS OF PRISONERS WALKING ALONG FENCE VARIOUS OF PRISONERS STOPPING TO WAIT AS MIGRANTS WALK ALONG TRAIN TRACKS INTO HUNGARY MIGRANTS WALKING ALONG TRAIN TRACKS AS PRISONERS WALK ALONG FENCE PRISONERS WALKING MIGRANTS WALKING VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING ALONG TRAIN TRACKS
  • Embargoed: 26th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Hungary
  • Country: Hungary
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5H8RE4U6CG8YL4QXJGEM8G70M
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: 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 (September 10) that 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.
    More than 430,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far in 2015, a record number that is more than double the total for the whole of last year, the International Organisation for Migration said on Friday.
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