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Bronze: Stuck at Belgrade Station
February 24, 2017
14-years-old Amid Khan from Afghanistan has lived the past six months in an abandoned warehouses behind the central train station in Serbia's capital, Belgrade. He is one of the more than 1,000 refugees and migrants who is stranded at the doorstep of the European Union because the borders to Hungary and Croatia are closed. Amid Khan who has no family in the camp has tried to cross the border 10 times without luck. Many are caught by police and beaten before being sent back to Belgrade and the dream of immigrating farther into Europe gradually fades away. Hungary is about to build another fence and isn’t intensifying their border controls. Serbia has gone from being a transit point on the Balkan route to becoming a terminal one. Belgrade's railway station has become an unintended destination.
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