{"id":90856,"date":"2017-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/4925\/"},"modified":"2017-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T21:00:00","slug":"4925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/4925","title":{"rendered":"Hungary Detains Immigrants in Ad Hoc Containers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Asylum seekers entering Hungary, as well as those currently in the country, are to be\u00c2\u00a0confined in camps composed of converted shipping containers while their applications are processed.<\/div>\n<div>A few weeks ago, Hungary&#8217;s parliament approved the systematic detention of all asylum seekers in a move that has drawn criticism from human rights groups and the UN.<\/div>\n<div>In a statement issued on Monday, the interior ministry said the purpose of the restrictions is to &#8220;prevent migrants with an unclear status from moving freely around the territory of the country and the European Union, and to thereby reduce the security risk of migration&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>A second &#8220;smart fence&#8221; complete with night cameras, heat and movement sensors, and multilingual megaphones warning against crossing the barrier is also under construction, with completion scheduled by May.<\/div>\n<div>According to the government, shipping container homes have been installed in transit zones built into a fence that Hungary has erected along its southern border with Serbia.<\/div>\n<div>The UN High Commission for Refugees has warned Hungary that systematic detention will have a terrible physical and psychological impact on women, children and men who have already greatly suffered.<\/div>\n<div>AGPS condemns the new rules for failing to meet Hungary&#8217;s international obligations vis-&agrave;-vis asylum seekers.<\/div>\n<div>Thousands of Palestinian from Syria have embarked on life-threatening journeys to Greece and Macedonia on way to Hungary, before heading to Europe in the hunt for a safer shelter.\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asylum seekers entering Hungary, as well as those currently in the country, are to be\u00c2\u00a0confined in camps composed of converted shipping containers while their applications are processed. A few weeks ago, Hungary&#8217;s parliament approved the systematic detention of all asylum seekers in a move that has drawn criticism from human rights groups and the UN. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}