Hunger Strike by Migrants in Hungary Enters Second Day
According to European Court of Human Rights ruling, the two men from Bangladesh, Ilias Ilias
and Ali Ahmed, were each given 10,000 euros, or $10,645, as well as costs because of their detention in a transit zone at Hungary’s border with Serbia, where both had applied for asylum.
The protest coincided with a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in favor of two refugees from Bangladesh
seeking asylum who were found to have been detained and deported illegally by Hungary in 2015.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMARCH 14, 2017
BUDAPEST — Dozens of people seeking asylum in Hungary continued their hunger strike for
a second day on Tuesday, demanding to be released from detention, the authorities said.
The 80 detainees on a hunger strike are part of a group of 102 people, mostly from Afghanistan, Pakistan
and Syria, being held at a closed reception center in Bekescsaba, a city in southeastern Hungary.
Hungary’s Office of Immigration and Asylum said in a statement
that it had expanded medical services because of the hunger strike, with social workers and armed security guards monitoring the detainees for any signs of sickness.