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Hungary Reduces Number Of Asylum-Seekers It Will Admit To 2 Per Day

Hungary has secretly reduced the number of asylum-seekers it will allow into the country to two per day, one at each transit zone. Hungary is the main access to Europe from the Balkan route.
Afghan asylum seeker and his 2 1/2-year-old daughter.

Hungary has quietly closed its borders to nearly all asylum seekers, which human rights advocates say violates international laws and is stranding thousands of refugee families in Serbia.

NPR interviewed asylum seekers, refugee advocates and a lawyer all with direct knowledge of the near closure and the resulting panic and despair. They report that since Jan. 22, Hungary is allowing only one asylum seeker per day to cross from Serbia into each of its two "transit zones."

The widely criticized zones – surrounded by barbed.

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