HIGHLIGHTS AND STATISTICS
The number of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants continued to slowly decline, with 6,471 counted in Serbia on 11 June. 92% of them were accommodated in 18 governmental shelters (below chart refers).
Some of the government centres remained overcrowded, including Obrenovac and Sjenica, as well as the Transit Centres (TC) in Adasevci, Principovac, Sombor and Kikinda, where over 300 refugees and migrants, including UASC, are still accommodated in temporary emergency shelters of rub halls or tents. In response, the authorities continued to consolidate accommodation, for example by transferring some 60 younger unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) from Obrenovac to Krnjaca Asylum Centre, as well as 103 mainly Pashtu-speaking men, including 33 UASC from Obrenovac TC to Presevo Reception Centre.
Frustrations among refugees and migrants regarding the long waiting time as well as management of the so called “waiting lists” for admission to Hungary expressed themselves on 06 June, when 64 asylum seekers went from Subotica Transit Centre to Horgos border site and on 09 June, when some 50 residents of Krnjaca Asylum Centre gathered in Belgrade in front of the governement offices.
UNHCR is grateful to the governments of Sweden and Australia, for having accepted refugees from Serbia for resettlement, thus allowing five refugees to depart to Sweden and two to Australia. UNHCR continues to promote and facilitate orderly legal pathways for refugees to access effective protection as one way to prevent violations of law and human rights on the “Balkan route”.
UNHCR and partners received reports of 78 collective expulsions from Croatia, with many alleging to have been denied access to asylum procedures in Croatia, while 41 were received from Hungary, including testimonies on serious maltreatment by Hungarian authorities.
01-11 June, 145 individuals registered their intention to seek asylum in Serbia.
