Thread by @jaketapper

In his Oval office meeting, President Trump says Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has "done the right thing, according to many people, on immigration."

@Amnesty International has condemned Hungary for its "systematic crackdown on the rights of refugees and migrants."

2/ e.g.: "More than 20,000 people were summarily and sometimes violently returned to Serbia or otherwise prevented from entering Hungary without access to fair and efficient asylum processes and an examination of their protection needs," @amnesty wrote.

3/ "In March, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Ilias and Ahmed v. Hungary that the confinement of asylum-seekers in 'transit zones', essentially heavily guarded container camps at Hungary’s external land borders, amounted to arbitrary deprivation of liberty..."

4/ That Court found that, "due to the poor conditions in which asylum-seekers were held for weeks and the lack of judicial remedies available against this form of detention, Hungary had failed to provide adequate protection against a real risk of inhuman and degrading treatment."

5/ "The newspaper Magyar Nemzet "revealed that, contrary to the government’s statements refuting allegations of abuse, more than 40 investigations had been launched into instances of excessive use of force by police at the border over a period of 18 months;...

6/ "... most of the investigations were closed without further action."

More here:

amnesty.org/en/countries/e…