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Hungary Adopts Law Penalizing Migrant Aid Groups

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
06/20/18
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The arrest of migrants by police in Hungary

Migrants are arrested by Hungarian police in Bicske, west of Budapest, as they attempt reach the Austrian border on September 3, 2015. Photo: AFP

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Hungary’s parliament adopted Wednesday a controversial package of laws penalising NGOs that help migrants, a key proposal of the firebrand nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Dubbed the ‘Stop Soros’ laws after liberal U.S. billionaire George Soros, accused by the government of orchestrating migration to Europe, the package of legislation was voted through by 160 votes to 18.

The government says the laws are aimed at people helping undeserving migrants to acquire refugee status, for example if those persons were not in immediate danger before entering Hungary, or who entered the country illegally.

Hungary ignores the #EU's right to dictate laws https://t.co/ioJuC5AJvj

— Diane James MEP (@DianeJamesMEP) June 20, 2018

The Hungarian chapter of rights pressure group Amnesty International, which could find itself targeted under the new laws, called them “a brazen attack on people seeking safe haven from persecution and those who carry out admirable work to help them.”

“It is a new low point in an intensifying crackdown on civil society and it is something we will resist every step of the way,” Amnesty said in a statement.

The ‘Stop Soros’ laws were promised by Orban in the lead-up to a parliamentary election in April, in which Orban’s ruling Fidesz party won a third consecutive term by a landslide.

The campaign was dominated by anti-migrant and anti-Soros messaging on pro-government media.

#BREAKING: “It is a bitter irony that as the world marks #WorldRefugeeDay, #Hungary's MPs have just voted to introduce a law that targets organizations & individuals who support asylum-seekers, refugees & migrants." @amnesty's @GaurivanGulik on #LexNGO law https://t.co/9NYSf1wJay

— Stefan Simanowitz (@StefSimanowitz) June 20, 2018

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