According to human rights activists, the EU country Hungary is starving asylum seekers in transit zones on the border with Serbia. An Iraqi couple did not receive food until yesterday after a five-day deprivation of food from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a spokesman for the Hungarian Helsinki Committee told the news portal Index.hu.
The three children of the couple were taken care of during this time. The parents fed on the remnants left over from the children during the five days, the spokesman said. The Helsinki Committee sees this treatment as torture, he added.
Hungary’s authorities had already caused outrage in August of last year by similarly starving eight asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Syria in the transit zone. At that time, as now, these were refugees whose asylum applications had been rejected at first instance.
