A group of around 350 refugees and migrants began a protest march from the Serbian capital to the border, demanding to be allowed to pass freely into Hungary. The refugees and migrants began their protest march on Tuesday to Serbia’s border with Hungary, some 200 kilometres north of Belgrade, escorted by police to ensure security and prevent them from blocking traffic on the highway. They are demanding that the border be opened to allow them to continue their journey towards Western Europe, as around 7,000 refugees and migrants are currently stuck in the country after fences were erected along the Hungarian-Serbian frontier to prevent them from passing through. Some of them held up hand-written placards with slogans demanding: “Open the border please!” “I request to Hungarian people, please open this border,” one of the protesters told Serbian media outlet Kurir. “We will continue our demonstration against Hungarian policy if they...
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