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EU-MED-CRISIS: Hungary Plans to Impose Prison Terms for Border Fence Violators

19 August 2015

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"Hungary’s government wants to impose prison terms of as long as four years on those who damage a fence that’s being built along the Serb border to repel hundreds of thousands of migrants, a senior minister said.

The government is calling for an extraordinary session of parliament to pass the legislation, which would also tighten penalties for smuggling people, Janos Lazar, the minister in charge of the Prime Minister’s office, told reporters on Tuesday. The cabinet will send thousands of police to patrol a barbed-wire fence, that’s being built along the 175-kilometer (109-mile) border shared by Hungary and Serbia."

See the full article: Hungary Plans to Impose Prison Terms for Border Fence Violators (bloomberg.com, link)

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