(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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