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European Court of Human Right condemns Hungary for its treatment of asylum seekers
In two cases this week, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) condemned Hungary for unlawfully detaining at the Debrecen Reception Centre for Refugees asylum seekers, pending the outcome of their asylum claims, without effective judicial review of their detention. Both cases concerned complaints under Article 5§ 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (right to liberty and security).
The first case of Al-Tayyar Abdelhakim v. Hungary (no. 13058/11) concerned a Palestinian national who, after being stopped at the Hungarian border at Záhony (Hungary) in July 2010 for using a forged passport, he claimed asylum, explaining that he came from a refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon, where he faced security problems. The applicants in the second case (Hendrin Ali Said and Aras Ali Said (no. 13457/11) were young Iraqi nationals who left their country in August 2009 and entered Hungary illegally, where they launched their first asylum application before being smuggled to the Netherlands. They claimed asylum, alleging that they had been persecuted in Iraq because of their father’s former service in Saddam Hussein’s army and their Kurdish ethnicity. After their interception in the latter, they were transferred back to Hungary in September 2010 under the Dublin II procedure.
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