In this 2017 photo, a Hungarian police officer stands guard at Serbia’s border with Hungary near a makeshift camp for migrants in Horgos, Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, FILE)
(CN) After hundreds of thousands of immigrants and refugees crammed into Europe in 2015, Hungary violated EU laws when it forced asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants into transit zones along its border, Europe’s highest court ruled on Thursday.
In its opinion, the European Court of Justice’s grand chamber slammed Hungary for treating asylum seekers and immigrants as detainees when it sent them to transit zones while processing their asylum claims and deportations.