(AP) Hungary deported a family of six Afghan asylum-seekers to Serbia on Tuesday, making them cross through a gate in the border fence in the dark, with no one waiting for them on the Serbian side.
The nighttime deportation was considered very unusual and was witnessed by staff from the U.N. refugee agency.
The couple and four children were taken from a transit zone for asylum-seekers to the border aboard a police truck, and they were visibly distressed as they carried their belonging into Serbia in large trash bags.
“This is the worst country in my life,” the mother could be heard saying to police shutting the border gate. She told them that they, too, could be refugees in the future. “You remember that!”
