Demonstration Against Border Fence Held By Basilica
- 15 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
A demonstration was held against the border fence being erected on Hungary’s border with Serbia and tightened migrant laws, the organising migrants rights group MigSzol said. Protesters gathered in front of the Basilica in central Budapest voiced their opposition to the government’s “portrayal of migrants as economic immigrants”. Speakers addressing the event said building a fence on the border will not solve problems.
Addressing the event, Júlia Iván, a representative of the Hungarian Helsinki Committe, a human rights organisation, said with the new migrant laws Hungary has “delisted from among the ranks of civilised European nations.”
She said it was cynical to regard someone fleeing from war as an economic migrant. Later the demonstrators moved to parliament square where they symbolically dismantled a fence.
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