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Migrants: NGO reports increased violence at Hungarian border

'Police shaved a man's head and drew a cross on it'

08 September, 09:17
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, SEP 8 - Hungarian authorities are allegedly using increased violence and brutality at the Hungarian-Serbian border against migrants and refugees attempting to enter Hungary illegally from Serbia, according to a Facebook post this week by the NGO 'KlikAktiv - Center for Development of Social Policies.' According to KlikAktiv, migrants have recently collected testimonies of "people shot at the border with rubber bullets," refugees "shaken off the fence with jeeps as if they were dolls," or being "dragged by the legs, stripped completely to bare skin, and forced back to Serbian territory naked." The NGO also reported the case of a Moroccan citizen who was deported to Serbia by Hungarian border police after being beaten. The police allegedly discovered an electrical razor in his bag and cut his hair drawing a cross over his head to humiliate him, before deporting him to Serbia.

"They turned on the machine, they grabbed me and they made a cross all over my head," the NGO quoted the migrant as saying, posting a photo of the victim's head.

"Unfortunately, inhuman and degrading treatment of refugees has become a common thing on the EU external borders and this case is not an exception. The same practice was done in the past on the Croatian-Bosnian border when the Croatian police was painting crosses on the refugee's heads with the red paint," the NGO told ANSA. (ANSA).

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