(AP) Hungary should not allow security concerns to override the human rights of migrants, a U.N. migration expert said Wednesday.
Felipe Gonzalez Morales, the U.N. special rapporteur on migrant rights, said that Hungarian authorities should move families with children who are awaiting a ruling on their asylum applications from being detained in border transit zones to being placed in open reception centers.
Speaking at the end of an eight-day visit to Hungary, Gonzalez Morales also expressed concerns about Hungary’s restrictive asylum procedures and urged Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government to end the migrant “crisis situation” it declared in 2016 because the flow of migrants has decreased greatly since then.
