b_179_129_16777215_00_images_FRA14231aa001.jpegBERLIN — Not long ago, a Syrian acquaintance of mine, Muhammad Albalkhy, sent me an urgent email: “I am in Hungary and I need your help. Do you know anyone who could get me out of here?”

After escaping from Syria, and enduring a harrowing journey through Turkey, Greece, the Balkans and Eastern Europe, Muhammad, 26, was arrested by Hungarian police.

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