Hunger Strike by Migrants in Hungary Enters Second Day<br />According to European Court of Human Rights ruling, the two men from Bangladesh, Ilias Ilias<br />and Ali Ahmed, were each given 10,000 euros, or $10,645, as well as costs because of their detention in a transit zone at Hungary’s border with Serbia, where both had applied for asylum.<br />The protest coincided with a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in favor of two refugees from Bangladesh<br />seeking asylum who were found to have been detained and deported illegally by Hungary in 2015.<br />By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMARCH 14, 2017<br />BUDAPEST — Dozens of people seeking asylum in Hungary continued their hunger strike for<br />a second day on Tuesday, demanding to be released from detention, the authorities said.<br />The 80 detainees on a hunger strike are part of a group of 102 people, mostly from Afghanistan, Pakistan<br />and Syria, being held at a closed reception center in Bekescsaba, a city in southeastern Hungary.<br />Hungary’s Office of Immigration and Asylum said in a statement<br />that it had expanded medical services because of the hunger strike, with social workers and armed security guards monitoring the detainees for any signs of sickness.
