VILNIUS: Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday extended a state of emergency on the country’s border with Belarus and in camps hosting migrants arriving from there until January 15.
EU member states accuse Belarus of encouraging illegal immigrants Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa to cross the border into the EU in retaliation for the sanctions imposed on minsk on human rights abuses.
The state of emergency since 9 November, when hundreds of migrants set up camps along the Belarus border with Poland, allows border guards to use “mental coercion” and “proportionate physical violence” to force migrants to enter Lithuania. to be prevented.
Prime minister ingrida simonette Told Parliament that the number of migrants trying to cross the border has now dwindled.
NS Lithuanian Ministry of the Interior Last week it said about 10,000 illegal migrants were in Belarus. They were in danger of being deported to Lithuania unless they returned to their countries of origin, the statement said.
Lithuania’s declaration allows the border guard to ban all travel within 10 km (six miles) of the Belarus border. Mobile phones may be taken from migrants and public gatherings near the border and forbidden in camps.
The government on Tuesday abandoned its proposal to declare a state of emergency along the Lithuanian border with Poland to stop smugglers taking smugglers into Germany via Poland, following backlash from lawmakers who criticized the measure as excessive. said.
EU member states accuse Belarus of encouraging illegal immigrants Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa to cross the border into the EU in retaliation for the sanctions imposed on minsk on human rights abuses.
The state of emergency since 9 November, when hundreds of migrants set up camps along the Belarus border with Poland, allows border guards to use “mental coercion” and “proportionate physical violence” to force migrants to enter Lithuania. to be prevented.
Prime minister ingrida simonette Told Parliament that the number of migrants trying to cross the border has now dwindled.
NS Lithuanian Ministry of the Interior Last week it said about 10,000 illegal migrants were in Belarus. They were in danger of being deported to Lithuania unless they returned to their countries of origin, the statement said.
Lithuania’s declaration allows the border guard to ban all travel within 10 km (six miles) of the Belarus border. Mobile phones may be taken from migrants and public gatherings near the border and forbidden in camps.
The government on Tuesday abandoned its proposal to declare a state of emergency along the Lithuanian border with Poland to stop smugglers taking smugglers into Germany via Poland, following backlash from lawmakers who criticized the measure as excessive. said.
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