[Balkanroute] Tensions are rising

Bulgaria
No hope, no information: The Detention of Migrants in Bulgaria
16.10.2016 by Bordermontoring Bulgarien
In February 2016, Bordermonitoring Bulgaria (BMB) obtained the story of an asylum seeker who was kicked out of the camp in Ovcha Kupel for allegedly being absent for three days without giving notice. After he got kicked out, he found a restaurant where started to work and live. In the meantime his asylum procedure finished with a negative decision and in addiction, the man lost his job. He went to the camp in Ovcha Kupel to hide, because he did not have any other place to stay. One night, he was found by the migration police which entered to check the camp and took him to Busmantsi. There he got no information, what will happen next to him. Other people BMB spoke to, who where deported back to Bulgaria due to the Dublin regulation, also spent days and weeks in Busmantsi. There they were given no information about what will happen to them. In October 2016, the Foundation for access to Rights (FAR), came up with a project and a remarkable report about detained immigrants in Bulgaria.
read the report
Serbia
Pictures taken in the camps in Subotica and Kelebija, September 2016 by No border Serbia
Recent Repression on people on the move in Serbia
1. September 2016 by Bordermonitoring Serbia
Since the 15th of July, the day that prime minister Aleksandar Vučić held a speech [1] about the problems Serbia is facing at the moment, the situation in Serbia for people on the move has become more and more tense. The speech was an awaited response to the legal changes made in Hungary on July 5th (“8 kilometer” push-back law [2]) which set a legal frame for the Hungarian authorities to push back thousands of people to Serbian territory.
Read the report
Hungary
The trial of Ahmed H. – The latest hearing
14/10/2016 by migzol
Here we are once again in front of the Szeged court with a lot more police presence than last time, thanks to the fact that in front of the building a small group are holding a solidarity demonstration. But inside we receive the same welcome as before, nobody asks to see any ID but we enter through a security gate and put our bags through an X-ray. We head up to the now familiar corridor where once again we’re directed to a side-corridor, during which from behind the locked iron door the stocky masked guards lead out Ahmed, cuffed at ankles and wrists. Upon looking at him it’s almost unbelievable that only three months have passed since we saw him last. Perhaps I’m just imagining that he seems much older than before. Later in the courtroom I notice that his voice also seems to have changed, it’s now hoarser and more timid. read the report
More about the campagne for Freedom for Ahmed H. Free the Rözke 11