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Experts Inspect Hungarian-Croatian Drava Border River
- 12 Oct 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
A team of soldiers, police officers, water management and forestry experts inspected a section of the Drava river and its embankment area along the Hungarian-Croatian border on Monday, the honvedelem.hu website reported. Thousands of migrants cross the Croatian-Hungarian border illegally on a daily basis. The border does not follow the line of the river, so it is possible for someone to cross the ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's New Border Regime Threatens Asylum Seekers
- 21 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Press Release: Hungary’s new border regime denies access to asylum and exposes vulnerable people to violence and prosecution, Human Rights Watch said today. Thousands of asylum seekers and migrants have been trapped in Serbia as a result of the de facto closure of the Hungarian border since September 15, 2015, when a new border regime came into force and a border fence was completed.
Xpat Opinion: Migrant Clash - Hungary As A New Israel?
- 21 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
An independent conservative analyst believes the migrants who clashed with Hungary’s security forces used tactics known from Gaza, where Palestinians deliberately put children at risk in their media war against Israel.
Armed Migrants Attack Hungary’s Border Crossing Station Röszke
- 17 Sep 2015 9:10 AM
- current affairs
Armed migrants attacked the Röszke 2 border crossing station and broke in the fence on Wednesday afternoon; people attempting to forcibly enter Hungarian territory at the scene are being held back by a police cordon, the Government Spokesperson said at a press conference held on location at 5:30pm yesterday evening.
Order Restored At Hungary’s Border Crossing Station Röszke
- 17 Sep 2015 9:06 AM
- current affairs
“By yesterday evening, order was restored at the Röszke border crossing station, where a group of armed migrants on the Serbian side of the border damaged the station’s fence and attacked police who were guarding the state border”, the Government Spokesperson announced at the scene on Wednesday night.
Police Stop Migrants Breaking Through Crossing Point At Hungary-Serbia Border
- 17 Sep 2015 9:02 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian police on Wednesday afternoon stopped a crowd of migrants which broke through the gate at a crossing point of the Röszke-Horgos station on the border between Hungary and Serbia. The police used tear gas and water cannons against the aggressive crowd, numbering several hundred people, after they threw stones, bottles, and burning torches at the officers. MTI’s on-site correspondent ...
Hungarian Police Brutally Attacked
- 17 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungarian police were exposed to brutal attacks from Serbian territory at the Röszke border crossing point on Wednesday, the Hungarian foreign minister said in response to critical remarks by the German defence minister and the Serbian prime minister. In the brutal attack by a group of aggressive migrants, 14 Hungarian police officers were injured, Péter Szijjártó said, adding that it was quite ...
Refugees Close Hungary's M5 Motorway
- 10 Sep 2015 9:30 AM
- current affairs
A section of the M5 motorway in southeast Hungary had to be closed yesterday afternoon when a crowd of 200-250 refugees began walking towards Budapest after fleeing a Röszke detention centre. Police provided an escort and eventually persuaded them to be taken to reception stations in buses. A Syrian woman attempting to escape threw a piece of concrete at a police officer in Röszke on Wednesday, ...
Migrants At Budapest Keleti Station Number 2,000
- 10 Sep 2015 4:58 AM
- current affairs
By Thursday morning the number of migrants waiting at Budapest’s Keleti railway station has reached 2,000, Tibor Lakatos, a senior officer of the national police, told the press. Lakatos said the police were working to direct the illegal migrants to reception points of the immigration office. Lakatos said that some 1,000 police officers were working along the Hungary-Serbia border in the south.
Experts Inspect Hungarian-Croatian Drava Border River
- 12 Oct 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
A team of soldiers, police officers, water management and forestry experts inspected a section of the Drava river and its embankment area along the Hungarian-Croatian border on Monday, the honvedelem.hu website reported. Thousands of migrants cross the Croatian-Hungarian border illegally on a daily basis. The border does not follow the line of the river, so it is possible for someone to cross the ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's New Border Regime Threatens Asylum Seekers
- 21 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Press Release: Hungary’s new border regime denies access to asylum and exposes vulnerable people to violence and prosecution, Human Rights Watch said today. Thousands of asylum seekers and migrants have been trapped in Serbia as a result of the de facto closure of the Hungarian border since September 15, 2015, when a new border regime came into force and a border fence was completed.
Xpat Opinion: Migrant Clash - Hungary As A New Israel?
- 21 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
An independent conservative analyst believes the migrants who clashed with Hungary’s security forces used tactics known from Gaza, where Palestinians deliberately put children at risk in their media war against Israel.
Armed Migrants Attack Hungary’s Border Crossing Station Röszke
- 17 Sep 2015 9:10 AM
- current affairs
Armed migrants attacked the Röszke 2 border crossing station and broke in the fence on Wednesday afternoon; people attempting to forcibly enter Hungarian territory at the scene are being held back by a police cordon, the Government Spokesperson said at a press conference held on location at 5:30pm yesterday evening.
Order Restored At Hungary’s Border Crossing Station Röszke
- 17 Sep 2015 9:06 AM
- current affairs
“By yesterday evening, order was restored at the Röszke border crossing station, where a group of armed migrants on the Serbian side of the border damaged the station’s fence and attacked police who were guarding the state border”, the Government Spokesperson announced at the scene on Wednesday night.
Police Stop Migrants Breaking Through Crossing Point At Hungary-Serbia Border
- 17 Sep 2015 9:02 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian police on Wednesday afternoon stopped a crowd of migrants which broke through the gate at a crossing point of the Röszke-Horgos station on the border between Hungary and Serbia. The police used tear gas and water cannons against the aggressive crowd, numbering several hundred people, after they threw stones, bottles, and burning torches at the officers. MTI’s on-site correspondent ...
Hungarian Police Brutally Attacked
- 17 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungarian police were exposed to brutal attacks from Serbian territory at the Röszke border crossing point on Wednesday, the Hungarian foreign minister said in response to critical remarks by the German defence minister and the Serbian prime minister. In the brutal attack by a group of aggressive migrants, 14 Hungarian police officers were injured, Péter Szijjártó said, adding that it was quite ...
Refugees Close Hungary's M5 Motorway
- 10 Sep 2015 9:30 AM
- current affairs
A section of the M5 motorway in southeast Hungary had to be closed yesterday afternoon when a crowd of 200-250 refugees began walking towards Budapest after fleeing a Röszke detention centre. Police provided an escort and eventually persuaded them to be taken to reception stations in buses. A Syrian woman attempting to escape threw a piece of concrete at a police officer in Röszke on Wednesday, ...
Migrants At Budapest Keleti Station Number 2,000
- 10 Sep 2015 4:58 AM
- current affairs
By Thursday morning the number of migrants waiting at Budapest’s Keleti railway station has reached 2,000, Tibor Lakatos, a senior officer of the national police, told the press. Lakatos said the police were working to direct the illegal migrants to reception points of the immigration office. Lakatos said that some 1,000 police officers were working along the Hungary-Serbia border in the south.