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September 9, 2015
Desperate Journey: Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Hungary
A Syrian baby sleeps on the floor inside the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary on August 31, 2015. The government has provided virtually no humanitarian assistance for the thousands camped around the train station, who have relied on a single water source and the kindness of strangers to survive, sleeping everywhere in the open. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Walking on train tracks in Horgos, Serbia, refugees make their way to the border to cross into Hungary. September 1, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Refugees and asylum seekers rest near Röszke, Hungary after crossing the Serbian-Hungarian border. September 1, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Refugees and asylum seekers, wait in line to be transferred to a transit camp near Röszke, Hungary after crossing the Serbian-Hungarian border. September 1, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Refugees and asylum seekers, mostly from Syria, board a bus to a transit camp, near Röszke, Hungary, September 1, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Hungarian police stand in front of the entrance to the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary barring entry to the many refugees and asylum seekers who wait to board trains to Germany. September 1, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Syrians demonstrate in front of the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary, after the Hungarian police prevented them from boarding trains to Germany. September 2, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Riot police stand in front of Budapest's Keleti train station in Hungary where hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers wait to be let on trains to Germany. September 2, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
A view of Budapest's Keleti train station in Hungary where refugees and asylum seekers wait to be let on trains to Germany. September 2, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
A boy sleeps at Hungary’s Keleti train station in Budapest where refugees and asylum seekers were waiting to be allowed to board trains to Germany. September 2, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Hassan and his wife Sheri, both Iraqi Kurds, walk along train tracks in Röszke, Hungary after crossing the border with Serbia. September 3, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Syrian refugees, Hassan, 35, and his daughter Tasneem, 5, stand on train tracks in Hungary after crossing the border with Serbia on September 3, 2015. Hassan said they fled after a bomb in their hometown of Raqqa killed his wife and 8-year-old daughter Sara. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Hungarian police patrol the border with Serbia in Röszke, Hungary. The Hungarian government put up the razor-wire fence in an effort to stem the flow of refugees and migrants into Hungary. September 3, 2015.
A portrait of Sabah, 35, a Syrian Kurdish refugee from Kobane, with her six children at the Serbian-Hungarian border in Röszke, Hungary, September 3, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Mohammed, 31, a Syrian from Damascus carries his 9-month-old son at the Serbian-Hungarian border area near Horgos, Serbia on September 3, 2015. He said he was frightened to cross the border with his family, fearing fingerprinting and detention by Hungarian authorities. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Refugees and asylum seekers arrive at a transit camp in Hungary, after crossing the border from Serbia on September 3, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
A man rests on the ground in a transit camp in Röszke, Hungary after crossing the border from Serbia. September 3, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
A young refugee girl walks past graffiti at the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary, on September 4, 2015. Thousands of refugees and asylum seekers camped out in the train station as Hungarian authorities prevented them from getting on trains towards Austria and Germany. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
A Syrian refugee carries the daughter of a friend, her mother walking next to him, on the Hungarian M1 highway near Budapest, Hungary on September 4, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
An elderly refugee walks along the Hungarian M1 highway near Budapest, Hungary, September 4, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Refugees and asylum seekers rest on the Hungarian highway M1, near Budapest, during their march toward Vienna, Austria. They left the Keleti train station in Budapest on foot after police denied them access to board trains leaving for Germany. They had refused to be taken to reception centers in Hungary, fearing that they would be forced to stay in the country. September 4, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Safi, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee from Aleppo, rests during the walk from Budapest toward Vienna, on highway M1 near Budapest, Hungary on Sept. 4, 2015. Safi lost a leg in a bomb attack in Syria. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Refugees and asylum seekers walk along the Hungarian M1 highway near Budapest heading toward Vienna, Austria. September 4, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Safi, 30, (right) a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, walks on highway M1 near Budapest, Hungary in an attempt to reach Vienna, Austria by foot after Hungarian authorities refused to allow refugees and asylum seekers to board trains that would take them to Germany. September 4, 2015 © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Refugees and asylum seekers arrive at the main train station in Munich, Germany on September 5, 2015. Many of them walked from Budapest towards Vienna the previous day. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
A Syrian refugee and her child arrive at the main train station in Munich, Germany on September 5, 2015. She was one of the thousands of refugees that walked from Budapest towards Vienna the previous day. The Hungarian authorities eventually sent buses to take them to the border with Austria. From there they made it over and on trains to Germany. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Refugees arrive at the main train station in Munich, Germany, on September 5, 2015. © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Region / Country
Europe/Central Asia
Hungary
Middle East/North Africa
Syria
Topic
Children's Rights
Migrant and Refugee Children
Refugees and Migrants
Asylum Seekers
Migrants