Refugee family detained at Hungarian border for months wins lawsuit against the state
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A refugee family was detained for seven months at the Hungarian border. They have now won a lawsuit against the state. Read our article to get to know their horribly sad story.
The Strasbourg court has ruled that the Hungarian state unlawfully detained an Afghan family of four in the Röszke transit zone for 211 days in 2018, and ordered the state to pay EUR 15,000 in damages, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee said in a statement.
The case against the Hungarian state
The asylum-seeking family was represented by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee in the case against the Hungarian state before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The court ruled on Wednesday that the Hungarian state had detained the family in unlawful and inhuman conditions, without any effective legal remedy.
The Strasbourg court awarded the family EUR 15,000 in damages because the detention of the seriously ill mother, young children and starved father in a transit zone for seven months constituted inhuman, degrading and unlawful treatment, against which Hungary did not provide a judicial remedy.
They came to Hungary in April 2018
The family was forced to flee Afghanistan because the father, who was working as an interpreter for the US military, was threatened with death by the Taliban. After a long wait in Serbia, the Hungarian authorities allowed them to enter the transit zone in Röszke on 23 April 2018 to apply for asylum, Telex reports.