Shocking: 19-year-old asylum seeker starved and illegally detained in a transit zone in Hungary
A young Iraqi man separated from his family was denied food for 8 days in a transit zone. The asylum seeker was released after 10 months and is now suing the Hungarian state as a client of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee in Strasbourg.
According to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the young man was separated from his parents and siblings because he was older than 18 years old. He had fled Iraq with his family, and his request for asylum had been rejected twice, for which he was placed in detention, of which 306 days he was held in the Tompa transit zone.
However, the Immigration and Asylum Office (BMH) no longer gives food to adults at the immigration detention centre, which is why H.L. was deprived of food for 8 days. Until then, his younger brothers and sisters gave the young person food from theirs. He was only given food by his captors after the Hungarian State was ordered to do so by the Strasbourg Court, through the Hungarian Helsinki Committee.
The young man has taken his case to the European Court of Human Rights with the help of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. H.L. was detained in particularly harsh conditions. He was housed in a container and was not allowed to leave his detention centre for any purpose unless accompanied by armed police or security guards, and neither UNHCR nor charity workers were allowed to visit. His captors did everything possible to make him give up and “leave voluntarily” for Serbia.
However, following the European Court of Justice ruling, the government was forced to close the transit zones on 21 May 2020. H. L. was then released and has been living in Austria since then.
The Strasbourg Court ruled last week that the Hungarian state had violated the law, as no one may be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in particular starvation. The Strasbourg judges therefore ordered the Hungarian state to pay a total of EUR 3,000 in just satisfaction.
Róbert Miskolczi, the lawyer of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, who represented the asylum seeker in the Strasbourg case, said, “our client has received compensation after five years. They (transit zones) have been abolished since then, but asylum seekers are paying a high price: those who do not come from Ukraine are no longer allowed to enter the country. We are working to put an end to the forced returns that often occur.”
Several recent injustices against asylum seekers
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This was not the first case recently of an asylum seeker winning a case against the Hungarian state. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee reports that an anxious Arab woman was detained in a container for patients with suspected infections, who also recently won against the Hungarian state.
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Hungarian state to pay EUR 3,500 in reparations after a woman from an excluded Arab minority filed a lawsuit over the trauma she suffered in a transit zone. The 27-year-old woman was kept under 24-hour observation because of her anxiety, in a container where patients with suspected infections are usually confined. She was not allowed to turn off the lights at night, claiming suicide risk, and she was not allowed to close the door in winter. She was detained in solitary confinement for 14 days in total, and since her release, she has been living in Germany, studying engineering.
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Once the asylum claim was rejected, he should have left the country. Hungarians are not obligated to feed illegal aliens. The authorities should have flown him back to Iraq. Why do Arabs find it so hard to accept “no”.
Send them all back except for Europeans.
An adult illegal alien, who knowingly and flagrantly violated the laws of at least four countries to get to Hungary, and then attempted to violate Hungarian law also, expected free food. Now he’s suing us for not getting it, assisted and financed by the usual suspects.
Hungary was indeed wrong: It was wrong to hold him for more than five minutes. Do you have your passport and visa? No? You’re taking the first flight/train/bus out. That’s how we usually deal with illegal alien invaders; that’s how this man should’ve been treated also.
Meanwhile back at the ranch Hungary suffers from population decline due to below replacement fertility, youth, working age and family emigration.
However, now like elsewhere Hungary invites immigration of tax paying workers, to support more pensioners and stressed budgets, but ageing voters focus on asylum seekers?
My father was a Hungarian refugee who along with thousands of others fled the Rakosi regime in the 1950s. He was treated humanely when he crossed the border into Austria and eventually was given landed status in Canada. Should they have had containers on the Austrian border in the 50s where they starved Hungarians to deter them from coming? What kind of monsters have many Hungarians become advocating that their fascist government treat humans beings worse than animals? Do these same people claim to be “Christians” and proclaim what proud Christians they are as Orban and his band of criminals do every day? Do they show up in church to hear the Christian message of compassion and then forget it with the first step they take out from the church door and instead proclaim their hate in public for people different from them?
Yes, Hungary may suffer from population decline. That does not mean all uneducated, unassimilable, illegal aliens should be admitted. According to the Dublin Regulation, people are required to ask for asylum in the first safe country. Hungarian government should reject all rulings against the government. Hungary has learned her lesson in 2015. The rest of EU countries are dealing with rising migrant crime and people that endanger the safety of women and Jewish citizens. It is time to Arabs to learn to get along and stay in their own countries.
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This is a hate criminal that should be put in jail for his discrimination and violence
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