Politics

Hungary ‘ready to detain all migrants’

Hungary said yesterday (27 March) it was ready to begin detaining asylum-seekers in camps on its southern border with Serbia after passing a law this month that has drawn criticism from rights groups and the UN.

Convicts with the help of wardens (L) build a second fence on the border between Hungary and Serbia. Near Kelebia, 1 March. [Sandor Ujvari/EPA]

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Background

Once asylum beneficiaries in 1956, Hungarians now reject migrants

Sixty years ago, Soviet tanks crushed an anti-communist uprising in Budapest, sending 200,000 Hungarians - men women and children - fleeing across the border into Austrian refugee camps, then onwards into a welcoming Western world.

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