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300 Migrant protesters nearing Hungary border |
2016-07-26 |
[AlAhram] Some 300 The group of mostly young men from Afghanistan and Pakistain had set off from Serbia's capital on Friday to protest against the closure of Hungary's border as well as tough new measures introduced this month to tighten border security. The group reached the town of Subotica near the border on Sunday morning, continuing their march towards the frontier in early afternoon in the hope of gaining entry into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Serbia lies on the so-called Balkan route taken by hundreds of thousands of Although the route was effectively shut down in March, The Abdul Malik from Afghanistan had said the group was "going to Hungarian border" and was "gonna change something by walking and not eating." Hungarian media quoted one of the marchers as saying he planned to stage a hunger strike at the border. The number of According to UNHCR in Serbia, up to 2,800 Last weekend Belgrade decided to launch joint police and army patrols to beef up its borders. Serbian authorities said recently that 102,000 |
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