Migrants walk at a migrant reception centre, transferred there from prison-like border transit zones at the Serbian-Hungarian frontier after Budapest abolished them earlier this week, in Vamosszabadi, Hungary, May 22, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
VAMOSSZABADI, Hungary (Reuters) - Pale, thin but in high spirits, Yemeni engineering student Wesam Al-Hadrami emerged from the unlocked gate of a new migrant centre in Hungary on Friday to take his first walk after nine months of detention.
Behind him lay a cluster of white buildings, recently renovated with funds from Switzerland and the European Union. A few unarmed private security guards looked on as migrants filed out into the sun and children kicked a ball around.
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