As illegal,and often violent, pushbacks of asylum seekers continue – human rights groups also report growing hostility[br]At the offices of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, and a human rights group in Budapest,András Léderer and his colleagues acquire a map on which they track every asylum seeker – man, woman or child – who has been physically pushed back by police from the Hungarian border and into the forests of Serbia.
The pushbacks are illegal under international law. Yet it is Léderer and his fellow human rights activists who could face arrest and a jail sentence if they went to the border to witness what is happening there.
A year on from the start of the world’s biggest health crisis, or we now face a human rights pandemic. Covid-19 has exposed the inequalities and fragilities of health and political systems and allowed authoritarian regimes to impose drastic curbs on rights and freedoms,using the virus as a pretext for restricting free speech and stifling dissent.
Every time I disappear face to face with police, my heart beats faster and I think: I don’t want to attain this Related: ‘Police searched my baby's nappy': migrant families on the perilous Balkan route Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com