(AFP) Hungary and Austria on Tuesday rejected criticism from the UN’s new human rights chief over their migration policies, accusing her of spreading “half-truths” and “baseless suspicions.”
In her maiden speech as UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet on Monday told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that she was dismayed by the approach of many developed countries towards migration.
While she did not criticise the migration policies of specific countries in her oral address, she did single out Hungary and Austria among others in a longer, written version of her speech.
In particular, the former Chilean president pointed to “shocking reports” that “food has been withheld from migrants held in transit zones on the Hungarian-Serbian border.”
