Stop sending migrants to Hungary, UN tells EU

Geneva April 10 (IANS/AKI) In a rare move the United Nations on Monday urged the European Union to stop transferring asylum-seekers to Hungary criticising the country s new policy of holding men women and children in containers.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees called on the EU to temporarily halt the transfer of asylum seekers under a complex EU rule known as the Dublin Regulation. This requires a migrant to apply for asylum in the first country of the bloc that they enter and to be returned there if necessary.

The situation for asylum-seekers in Hungary which was already of deep concern to UNHCR has only got worse since the new law introducing mandatory detention for asylum-seekers came into effect said UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi.

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