Placing asylum seekers and nationals of non-Member States subject to a return decision in the transit zone of Röszke on the Serbo-Hungarian border must be qualified as detention, the Court of Justice of the European Union confirmed in a judgment handed down on Thursday 14 May (Cases C-924 and 925/19).
The case concerns the asylum applications of Afghans and Iranians who arrived in Hungary from Serbia and were then placed in the Röszke transit zone where they are not permitted to move...