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Migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border: a person in danger of death (NGO)

2021-08-25T14:07:17.840Z


A person in a group of migrants stranded for more than 15 days at the Polish-Belarusian border "is on the verge of death", warned ...


A person in a group of migrants stranded for more than 15 days at the Polish-Belarusian border "

is on the verge of death,

" a Polish foundation there warned on Wednesday (August 25th), calling on the government for help.

Read also The UN calls on Poland to accept migrants stranded at the border with Belarus

About thirty migrants, probably Afghans, remain stuck in a makeshift camp on the border between Belarus and Poland, the latter refusing to let them enter its territory.

They are closely monitored on the one hand by Belarusian border guards and on the other by Polish forces.

"

We fear for the life of a 52-year-old woman

," Kalina Czarnog, spokesperson for the Ocalenie Foundation (Relief in Polish), told AFP.

According to the foundation, the woman suffers from respiratory and kidney problems.

Several other people suffer from other illnesses, she said.

A fence erected

Activists, who are denied direct access to migrants, communicate with them via placards and megaphones, often scrambled by police.

They complain of not being able to provide them with the food or equipment they need to survive in increasingly cold and rainy weather.

"

Our appeal is addressed to the government because decisions are taken at the highest level,

" said Kalina Czarnog.

Read alsoFour EU members call on the UN to act against the influx of migrants from Belarus

The Polish government maintains that the migrants are on the Belarusian side of the border, that Belarus is solely responsible for this situation, and stresses that a humanitarian convoy dispatched by Poland to a border post was not accepted by Minsk . Poland declares that it will not allow migrants to enter its territory which, according to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, would yield to the "

blackmail

" of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as well as the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, called on Poland to welcome the small group of migrants. “

Pushing back people, denying them access to fair asylum procedures or simply leaving them stuck in a humanitarian emergency cannot be the response of a Council of Europe member state bound by the European Convention rights, the Refugee Convention and other international human rights instruments

, ”Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic wrote on Wednesday. On Monday, Poland announced thatit was to erect a "

solid fence

" of barbed wire on the Polish-Belarusian border and increase its military personnel there.

Source: lefigaro

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