(AFP) “It’s difficult in a new way for us. There is hardly anyone left to talk to,” Karzan Mohamed Sharif Amin, an Iraqi Kurd, told AFP at a government-run shelter in western Hungary.
A father of four, the 37-year-old is one of a handful of asylum seekers still inside Hungary as its doors in effect slam shut for people fleeing war and persecution.
New rules in place since June say asylum seekers must first submit a so-called “declaration of intent” at one of the country’s embassies abroad, rather than on arrival at the border as before.
From 2017, asylum seekers were automatically parked in controversial frontier “transit zone” camps while their applications were processed.
