Reuters, 29/09 13:55 CET
By Krisztina Than
SZEGED, Hungary (Reuters) – The
court in the southern Hungarian town of Szeged has shelved other
criminal cases and is handing down fast-track verdicts punishing
migrants for unlawfully crossing a razor-wire fence that lines the
border with Serbia.
In the ten days since Sept. 15, when tough new
legislation took effect, the Szeged court ruled in 176 cases, sentencing
migrants mostly from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq to expulsion from
Hungary for crossing the fence.
Nobody has been acquitted and only 10 cases have been appealed.
The new law is part of a clamp-down by Prime Minister
Viktor Orban’s right-wing government aimed at stopping the influx of
migrants into Hungary, the first European Union member state in the
Schengen zone of passport-free travel.
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Source: Euronews
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