Strasbourg court bans Hungary from confining eight migrant children, pregnant woman – UPDATE
Budapest, March 28 (MTI) – The European Court of Human Rights has banned Hungarian authorities from transferring eight teenagers and a pregnant woman from a refugee asylum near Budapest to the transit zone along the Hungary-Serbia border “to be detained”, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee reported on Tuesday.
The procedure was initiated by the committee last Friday, with regard to Hungary’s new border regulations taking effect, under which “obviously vulnerable clients in need of special treatment” could have been transferred from open camps to closed facilities in the transit zone.
In its ruling, the Strasbourg court put questions to the Hungarian government, to be answered before April 10, as to the timing and legal basis of such transfers, the committee said in its statement. The court also wants to know if services are in place to meet special requirements in the transit zone, if asylum seekers are granted opportunities to study or have access to medical services; are minors to be ensured the same conditions as adults, and if so, is there a legal basis.
Under a government proposal passed into law on March 7, asylum seekers can only submit their applications for such status personally, and in the transit zones at times of an “emergency caused by mass migration”. Applicants, with the exception of unattended minors under 14, are not allowed to leave the transit zone for other parts of Hungary before their applications are processed. The amended rules also apply to asylum seekers whose procedures were under way before the rules took effect, with the exception that they are allowed to leave the transit zone before their cases are closed.
UPDATE
György Bakondi, chief security advisor to the prime minister, voiced incomprehension over the ruling, and said that the Hungarian authorities had not passed any decision over the 8 teenagers and the pregnant woman, therefore “we do not know what decision we should not implement”. He also noted that the ruling was not a verdict but a temporary measure by the Strasbourg court.
In a statement to MTI, the interior ministry said that they had received no official ruling on the matter. The ministry has made no decisions regarding the transfer of the migrants in question, the statement said, and so the Hungarian Helsinki Committee “had no legal grounds” to seek judicial remedy.
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Source: MTI
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The teenagers should all be sent back home and reunited with their families. This is the common practice in North America. All children have a better chance at a normal and happy life living with their natural families. Has anyone seen the inside of the new containers or they are just talking. It was mentioned in several articles that these new places have no air conditioning. 75 percent or more homes are not air conditioned in Hungary. Why would they air condition temporary living spaces when they cannot provide the service to their own citizens. I am also sure that the new living spaces provided are better than what they have in Serbia and Greece. Hungarian refugees were in a closed camp in Austria in 1956, no one ever mentioned that anyone had any problems. Kids were not exploited. I wonder what the Soros backed NGOs think that the migrants will be abusing these children. If the NGOs think that all migrants are child molesters, that this a big reason to keep everyone out from Hungary. Well done Orban.
Each country should be able to determine what their policies are and their laws. The countries that are voting against Hungary, are the same ones that were against the United States when it came to immigration and said that they handled things better…. which was false. Historically a majority of the countries had problems with Roma’s.. and now we have the Syrians escaping their countries problems. They don’t help fix Syria, they close their boundaries, but at the same time accept some…but don’t follow up on them. Now I can look at a number of German, British, Canadian, Swedish papers and see that all these countries have the same problem and internally are facing a backlash that we see in the US and elsewhere. It’s scary that the groupthink now is that if you don’t do what the rest do, that you now will face sanctions. Each country shouldn’t be judging another… all the countries have secrets and history that show that they made mistakes. And even today they are continuing these mistakes that will be seen (or forgotten, depending on who writes and determines the historical record) as what they are…they aren’t as modern and intelligent as they are… they are using cohersion and force to an end that they cant even admit isn’t working. Orban, stick to what your citizens want. They voted and rally for their country to be a certain way… follow them. If they change… you’ll have to change as well…for the nations sake and demands.