Refugees stopped at Serbia-Hungary border on hunger strike

The Horgos border crossing on the Serbian-Hungarian border was closed by Hungarian authorities on Tuesday.

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Tuesday, 15.09.2015.

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Refugees stopped at Serbia-Hungary border on hunger strike

Hungary has reinforced the police deployed on its side of the border, and placed an additional metal barrier. A group of refugees was heard chanting, "Open, open, open."

This border crossing is completely shut down by Hungarian authorities while police and soldiers take groups of refugees to a transit zone. Other passengers can cross the border only once this procedure completes.

Reuters is quoting a Hungarian government spokesman as saying that his country has set up two transit zones to handle asylum requests from migrants along its Serbian border "where requests can be assessed within hours."

Migrants can submit their request between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. each day and the transit zones will operate similarly to airport transit lounges, said the agency, adding that those who do not submit asylum request "will have to return to Serbia immediately."

The government spokesman and an adviser to the prime minister "confirmed that those who had not submitted an asylum request in Serbia or Macedonia, which are regarded by Hungary as safe, will have their requests rejected automatically by Hungary."

"The others will have their asylum requests assessed, and if this does not happen within 24 hours, then they will be put up in accommodation, and the maximum deadline for requests to be decided is eight days," Reuters said.

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