(6 Apr 2018) Habibullah Salmankhail, a 14-year old who arrived in Serbia a year ago from Afghanistan, and spent three months in Hungary before being expelled, was biding his time in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, waiting for another opportunity to continue his journey to Western Europe.
Salmankhail complained of mistreatment and an unfair asylum process in Hungary, where advocates like MigSzol, the Migrant Solidarity Group, try to assist refugees in the asylum-seeking process and their integration into Hungarian society.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is hoping his relentless anti-migration stance will be enough to motivate his conservative voter base and win a third consecutive term in Sunday's election.
Orban's decision to build razor-wire fences on Hungary's southern borders with Serbia and Croatia, as well as his view of NGOs helping migrants and asylum-seekers as Hungary's enemies, is affecting people both inside and outside the country.
After building razor-wire fences on the country's southern borders in 2015 to divert the migrant flow, Orban has constructed a grand conspiracy theory. He claims the EU, the U.N., Hungarian-American financier George Soros and the civic groups he sponsors are all conspiring to force Hungary to take in thousands of mainly Muslim migrants to weaken its independence and its Christian identity and culture.
A handful of asylum-seekers, mainly women and children, are allowed to present their asylum claims to Hungarian authorities at a pair of transit zones built from shipping containers at the Serbian border.
Those who expect to have their claims rejected and are only seeking to pass through Hungary on their way to Western Europe, sometimes try to enter the country by breaching the well-guarded border fences.
Orban's crackdown on NGOs, including rules already in place taxing their donations from abroad, is expected to intensify if he is re-elected.
A package of laws already submitted to parliament but not yet approved would impose further restrictions, including mandatory government permits for migrant and refugee advocates, who could also be banned from going nearer than eight kilometers (5 miles) from the border, greatly restricting their activities.

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