Hungarian soldiers patrol the Hungarian-Serbian border near the village of Tompa, Hungary, June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
TOMPA, Hungary (Reuters) - Hungary's tough asylum system has helped to cause a bottleneck for up to 7,000 migrants who are now stuck in limbo in Serbia, the Council of Europe Special Representative on migration and refugees said on Wednesday.
After visiting two camps built from shipping containers and surrounded by a barbed-wire fence on Hungary's border with Serbia, Ambassador Tomas Bocek also told Reuters that the migrants were effectively being deprived of their liberty.
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