Is Hungary starving asylum seekers and migrants?
In this file photo, an immigrant boy is seen inside a train he boarded with his family at Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary. September 5, 2015.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, had last September accused Hungary of withholding food from migrants being held in transit zones along its border with Serbia. She said that once an asylum application had been denied, all adult migrants, with the exception of pregnant and nursing women, "are deliberately deprived of food."
It maintained that rejected asylum seekers were not detained and were free to leave and cross into Serbia. In general, it insisted, "Migrants must not be subject to detention in inadequate conditions, arbitrary detention or other forms of coercion as this renders any return involuntary."
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