Time and Date: 13.6.17 - Between 23:30-1:00 until 5:00am
Location Found: Horgos transit camp
Location of Violence: Hungarian side of the Serbian/Hungarian border
Demographics: 27 people, 2 minors: 12 & 16. 25, including minors, from Pakistan. One man from Iran, one man from Syria.

 We walked approximately 5km into Hungary. We were sleeping in the jungle for approximately one hour to hide from the police, because we thought we were safe. Then, the police surrounded us and started beating everyone in the jungle. They called the dogs, german shepherds. They had this face covering (muzzles). They continued beating, kicking, punching and hitting us with sticks. Both official police sticks (batons), with sticks from the forest, and their torches. These official sticks hurt too much. There was one man who was very tall and looked
like a bodybuilder, he had on a blue shirt and army trousers. They kicked us in the face and groin, and said, “Welcome to Hungary”. Then, they put dirt into our faces and said again, “Welcome to Hungary.” After one and a half or two hours, they said, “Ok. Stand up.” and moved us from the jungle. They told us to make a line, and continued to beat us with official sticks and sticks from the jungle on our legs. There was a car playing loud Hungarian music. They poured beer and wine on the back of our necks. Then they told us to sit down in the line outside of the jungle. They had one dog named ‘Freki’ with a face cover, and told him to attack people one by
one. They kicked me in the face when I was sitting, and my nose started bleeding. Then, when the police saw my nose bleeding, he kicked me in the face again, and said, “Fuck you.” The police had pistol guns and the army had AK-47s. They took the pistols and held them to each of our heads.

Then, they told us to stand up and make a line, and start walking. As we were walking, they continued to beat us. They have a new, special person trained in this field. He was kicking and punching our faces and arms. We walked for one and a half hours, and they were still beating. We got to the main road, and they brought two vans. They brought us to the transit zone gate, and interviewed us one by one. They asked a series of questions: Where are you from? How old are you? What is your name? What is your mother’s name? Where do you want
to go? Then, they instructed us to unlock our phones and they checked everything. They checked our sim number and everything, and checked our belongings and pockets. Then Serbian police came to the fence, and the Hungarian police took the dog away. I think the Hungarian police would have beaten us again, but they didn’t want to in front of Serbian police because then the police would have been witnesses. The Hungarians asked how much money we had, and then gave it back to us. They didn’t do anything for the injuries. My nose continued bleeding for two hours, and when I arrived to the transit zone it was still bleeding, and their faces did not change at all. It took 5-6 minutes to check each person. Around 5:30 or 6:00am they opened the gate back to Serbia.

Time and Date: 12.6.17 - Between 2:00am until 5:00am
Date of Interview: 14.6.17
Location Interviewed: Palić
Location of Violence: (46.164050,19.806093)
Demographics: 14 people total: 13 from Afghanistan including one minor: age 16, and one man from Pakistan
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Testimonial:
“We crossed at around 11pm, at 2am, police catch. The army catch us first, and then police come. Army not beating so much, then the police beating and kicking. They told us to crouch down like this [fetal position] with our heads to the ground, and they beat us if we moved. We stayed down like this for 2 hours, and they beat us if we moved. After some time, new people [police] come in a car and beat us also during these two hours. Then a second car with police came and they beat [us] again for one more hour. Approximately three hours of beating total. They were also kicking and punching us. After, they walked us to the big road and told us to sit down. They lowered their guns at us and said to sit far apart from each other, then another car come and police started beating again. 5-6 cars came like this. They kicked one man in the penis and he passed out because it was so hard. When he woke up, he didn’t know where he was, and he was bleeding from his mouth. Police say they recognized him, one army man say 4-5 days ago this man tried before. 4-5 police beat this man. He went back to belgrade. The police beating another man, and they kicked him in the chest. He was vomiting today. The man they kicked in the penis was vomiting blood. The man from Pakistan was beaten worse because he was from Pakistan.

They continued to beat us on the side of the road, and many of us could not walk so well because we were in this crouched position for so long. There was police man with a beard that was too much of a problem. He was beating so much. They then took out the dog, and were just holding it on the leash, and letting it bark at people, but not freeing it. Then one police person said it was enough beating; he looked like a bodybuilder with short hair. Then two vans came to the side of the road, and brought us to the Horgoš transit zone. There was a Serbian police man staying at the gates where we come through back to Serbia. Before, Hungary was letting dogs chase people back on the Serbian side, so now have a police there, and Hungary does not beat there anymore. One Hungarian man collected our shoes. I asked for one minute to take my shoes off, and he [pepper] sprayed my face. There is are two small gates close to the patrol road which go through the two fences to the Serbian side. It is ~500m from the container camp. We were forced to read a paper and go through the gates. It said, “Don’t come again to Hungary illegally. If you want to come to Hungary, register in Serbia to cross. If you cross the border again, we will bring you to a closed camp or to court, and court will decide what to do.” There was a speaker on the fence saying, “This is property of Hungary.” They said this in English, Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu. We were made to read this paper outloud and they recorded us reading it. They also took pictures of everyone. One group photo, and then alone picture. All four sides: face, back, right and left sides. The Serbian Police always stand close to the gate, and then direct us to camp. They tell us to go get food and water there, and then take leave the transit camp after, but they let us rest there.’