From #Torture to Detention: Torture Survivor Asylum-Seekers Face Detention instead of Rehabilitation in Hungary
A significant part of asylum-seekers arriving in the EU are torture victims. Their proportion is particularly high among asylum-seekers fleeing on-going armed conflicts and failed states, such as Syria, Afghanistan or Somalia. Torture victims in Europe are in urgent need of assistance: from early identification, through professional medical treatment, psycho-social and legal support, to full rehabilitation. The EU-funded STRENGTH project was implemented in Bulgaria and Hungary in a joint partnership of two organisations providing psychotherapeutic support and rehabilitation to torture victims (in Hungary the Cordelia Foundation), and two organisations engaged in legal support (in Hungary the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, between July 2014 and January 2016. The project’s aim was to provide access to complex assistance to torture victims in these two countries, in order to ease their continued suffering, facilitate their access to international protection, and challenge their often unlawful and unnecessary detention.
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