March, 2017. Kelebija, Serbia. Newly-built Hungarian detention camp for migrants at the Serbian-Hungarian border. Krystian Maj/ Press Association. All rights reserved.On May 23, 2016 Abdullah, a 26 year old man from Afghanistan crossed the border from Serbia to Hungary. He managed to break through the razor wire reinforced border fence Hungary had just erected in the fall of the year before and was apprehended by uniformed men near a Hungarian village.
He and the eight other people who were caught with him were forced to return back to the border fence where 30 policemen waited for them. They were told to keep their heads down, not to catch a glimpse of what was about to happen. Yet, Abdullah raised his head, and saw the policemen approaching. They carried a big canister of pepper spray. Then the beating began.
After a while, the refugees were handcuffed and led to a little hole the police had opened in the fence. Suddenly, a police man approached Abdullah and sprayed his face with pepper spray. He could not see. The police men forced him to crawl through the little hole in the razor wire fence. As he was crawling, the policemen kicked his butt and laughed. By the time he had made it to the Serbian side of the border, he had suffered severe cuts.
