Refugees from Germany nevertheless to be further deported to Hungary
“No refugees in orbit“ was a central slogan of the so called Dublin II-agreement, meant to regulate the proceedings of asylum applications. But the real effect is exactly the opposite: more and more refugees – including minors – are straying through Europe, fleeing from being deported to the countries of first arrival. They spend months or even years in various EU nations in the search for a country that will recognise their rights, and offer them a decent chance to experience a normal human life. Their first registration via fingerprint in the eastern and southern EU nations often leads to their doom. What at the beginning of the year was suspended for refugees, who entered Europe in Greece, is an ongoing problem with Italy, Malta or also Hungary, despite similar unsustainable conditions: constantly there is a threat of deportation to these nations of first registration when refugees continue their journey.
“Europe wide we are observing a horrifying phenomenon: young refugees have to continue to flee. And this is due to fear of deportation to European countries in which their human rights as children are being trampled. Nobody feels responsible for these teenagers, who are displaced from one country to another,“ said Niels Espenhorst, speaker of the Federal Association for Unaccompanied Minor Refugees.
Hungary is a classical transit country. Here cross the paths of those that hope to travel from the Ukraine to Western Europe, with those that flee from Greece over the Balkans. Rarely does one want to stay in Hungary, due to dramatic experiences they have seen themselves in the detention facilities. Homelessness, unemployment, lack of opportunity for raising families, failing educational opportunities and insufficient governmental financial support are defining parts of everyday life.
The Hungarian authorities detain, almost without exception, every asylum seeker. And this includes those that applied for Asylum and have been deported back to Hungary under the Dublin II agreement from Germany or other European nations. Due to strong critique from various human rights organisations and the UNHCR, the draft asylum law from the end of 2010 was cancelled in regards to proposed “regular“ detention for minors without parents. In practice things look different. „We continually find visibly under-aged children who have been in Hungarian jails. Many are illegally detained and some are made on paper older than they are. Even those who have undergone medical age assessment, are highly likely to be older than age 18 by the time they are deported to Hungary.“ said Marion Bayer from Network Welcome to Europe.
Apparently due to pressure from the EU, Hungary has intensified its detention system for refugees in 2010. Firstly, the detention capacity was raised, and then the length of detention was raised to 12 months. For the entire summer, there were massive protests and unrest in all Hungarian “Detention Centres“: Including Hunger Strikes and self-harm and continuous cases of police violence, as the Hungarian Helsinki Committee reported recently. In Kiskunhalas, a detention facility near the Serbian border, one entire floor was completely burned out in the course of a revolt against the inhuman conditions. In Nyírbátor, not far from the Ukrainian border, refugees were regularly given sleeping tablets to force them to keep quiet. Nyírbátor and Kiskunhalas are known to refugees as the “Hell of Hungary”.
That continually more minors are arrested under such conditions is a further exceptional scandal, and goes against the EU guidelines for the intake of asylum seekers, the UN Convention on Children’s’ Rights and the resulting obligations to protect the well-being of children. “Dublin II is not there so that we can find peace!“ said Milad, 17, from Afghanistan. “They just look at our fingerprints. Always landing in prison and never reaching the freedom that I dreamed of – this also destroys those that were once strong.“
Contact:
Federal Association for Unaccompanied Minor Refugees: 0049-89-20244013, mail: info@b-umf.de
Welcome to Europe Network: mail: contact@w2eu.net
Background Information:
- UNHCR-Budapest already in 2010 in a study of homeless refugees comes to the conclusion that the living conditions of refugees in Hungary are not secured: UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Refugee Homelessness in Hungary, March 2010, available at:
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4bb4b9ac2.html
- The newly published report of the Helsinki Committee Hungary regarding the conditions in refugee prisons: Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Immigration Detention in Hungary 2010, April 2011, available at:
http://helsinki.hu/dokumentum/HHC%20immigration%20detention_ENG_final.pdf
PDF-versions in English and German:
Pressrelease Hungary DublinII (pressrelease english version)
PM-Ungarn_web (pressrelease in german)
Annex Pressrelease Hungary DublinII (english version annex)
Anhang PM Ungarn (annex in german)
To: all who has a sense of understanding..
Many asylum seekers arrived in Hungary as they left their own country becouse of wars, violent and dictatorship,and they wanted to get a security,protection and better live and indeed they are deserve to be protected and recognised as refugee but their hope has changed to hopless and disapointed and became from bad to worst, after they arrived the Hungarian borders ,when they ask asylum they are detained and returned back to countries in which they had no freedom and security such as Ukraine and Serbia,
some of them are recognized as refugees but they are kept in a camp in 6 months they are not tough a prepositional skills and there is no an integration progorames and they became homeless and sleep on the streets they are tortured, discriminated and they do not have an opportunity to learn and to do work.
In addition to that when they try to go a better where they can get an opportunity and better live like Sweden Holland Norwey UK Finland Austeria and Germany they are deported to Hungary because of the the Dublin 11.
When they are returned to Hungary they are arrested and keep in a jail or detention center and these people include Minors Women and youth when they are released from the detentions they become homeless,foodless and with out medical care and they are in a circle hard condition…
so that i am recommending and suggesting to the Human right Organisations to critisise and respond this bad treatment and we suggest to the Hungarians to say the truth and convince that they have no willing to the immigirants and a asylum seekers.
THE TRUTH.
Hell of refugee hungaria….
Most of the other european contries believe that refugee are lying cause of dublin II just simple question. I fear from home country cause of different problems and am looking for better live so my question is what is the different between 2 european countries if i have every thing to my first entry country and what is the meaning to go another?. i think that is simple thing you can understand, so am going to tell other countries i can say nothing in hungary, first time when enter they have do the following things:-
1-they have to wellcome you in to a prison whether you are under age or over age.
2.giving you sleeping tablet to quit and to sleep all the day.
3. may be you can have passport, no one integration at all second they will kick you out of the camp with in 6months and also you are in isolated camp.
4. homeless , jobless after 6 months.
So, after all these problems some people they got frustrated and they plan to kill them selves when they heard that you planing so they send you a doctor and after that you live with injection life, if there some people to have big heart to move other european countries there indicator which is called DUBLIN II and that country have ask hungarian goverment to send that person back and hungarian does know nothing about you you were homeless, joblees in budapest if you are very lucky person the second country doesnt recognise you becouse of you know the problems you were faced in hungry.. live is very hard some times when i see these ongoing things inside refugees in EU countries i remember BOBMARLEy Song (DONT GIVE UP.
Finally, i recomend to hungarian and other european countries to give refugees their choice to live the place they suppose to live). NO DUBLIN II SAY NO MORE DUBIN II
@Ahmed, dose that are reconize in hungary as refegue owe a very big thnks to hungarians no matter how ur are been treated in the country after you might has gain your statue as refegue, etc smalians and some arabians from iraq iran turkey.how ever you need to ask some other african people the way they are been treated in hungary nigerians are hoding the red flag in hungary upon that they still carry on untill they are legal in hungary and start living and hosiling their life hungarian immigration hate this people i know one of my nigerian friend it took him five years after going to countrys to countrys b4 he could manage to be legal in europe he is a nigerian guy and i realy respect his struggles and finaly he achived it and today he is a happy guy, he went through alot of haxeles in the bekescsaba refegue camp and i still belive he went through those hard time because the immigration officers and social workers were over bitterd with him and yet he has no crime or been rude to those people, so count your self lucky to be granted the refegue statue and yet you complain cheers
I understand how you are trying to enlighten ahmed, But in some case he is right refegues need seriouse help and protection untill they are as good as fine in hungary. For the way they mistreat nigerians in bekescaba camp we are all aware of it, but since they are immigrant the have no one to come to their aid only God do help them out. we all got the same experience i could remenber once i was there a social worker name szusza perek ask me why should we nigerians keep on coming to hungary she was a mere racist woman i wornder how she could be in around international afiarance, they give light skin people like arabians and turkish a five star reception there was once a racist agfhanistan social worker as corupt as hell i could not remeber his name they all colide with the officers in bekescba and mistreat nigerians and other black skin africans in that camp i witness it myself.
There is racism in that camp i mean bekescba refegue camp @Rolland i can remenber the the name of the social worker you just listed she was a racist woman her name was szusza she was fat and huge, We dont blame them for mistreating nigerians our learders are to be blame imagine a poor country as hungary we nigerians are asking for asylum its a shame for nigeria as a country. I was in that camp i witness it nigerians and africans generally are not welcome in bekescaba refegue camp that place is hell for nigerians the social workers who were working in that camp from the year 2003 to 2010 need interogation they are realy bad people and the soo called immigration officers are not helping things