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Hungary accused of violating its own tough immigration laws by helping fugitive Macedonian ex-PM
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Nov 17, 2018 09:46pm |
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| Author | Matthew Day |
| News Date | Friday, November 16, 2018 08:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A human rights organisation has accused the Hungarian government of breaking the country’s strict immigration laws by helping a fugitive former Macedonian prime minister to claim asylum.
Nikola Gruevski, who served for 10 years as prime minister, should have turned himself in to the Macedonian authorities on November 8 to begin a two-year jail sentence for corruption, but instead went on the run.
He surfaced in Budapest earlier this week despite having no passport, and claimed asylum, saying that he had received death threats at home.
Gruevski enjoyed a strong relationship with Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, when in office, and his arrival may have flouted tough anti-illegal immigration laws introduced by the Orban government.
Andras Lederer, advocacy officer on the refugee programme at the Helsinki Committee, a Budapest-based organisation that handles asylum cases, said that Gruevski has no legal grounds for an asylum claim under these same laws. |
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