Hungary's parliament has been heavily criticised for approving plans to detain asylum seekers in converted shipping containers placed in detention camps on its border.
At present migrants can be held for up to four weeks if they are apprehended within five miles of the border, but the new rules remove the time limit and will apply countrywide.
The measures were fiercely opposed by civil liberties groups and some socialist MPs but was nevertheless a vote was passed overwhelmingly by 138 votes.
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