The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) temporarily forbade the Lithuanian authorities to send five refugees from Afghanistan who arrived in the country from the territory of Belarus. Reports about it DELFI.
Temporary protection measures are valid until September 29. The ECHR reports that Afghans arrived in Belarus in August and tried to get into Lithuania several times to get political asylum. They claim that they fled from persecution after the Taliban terrorist movement came to power in Afghanistan (prohibited in Russia).
Migrants are in Lithuania from September 5.
In May, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, on the wave of another exacerbation of relations with the West, threatened to weaken control abroad. After that, in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland hung the flow of migrants from the Middle East.
The authorities of these countries accuse Lukashenko to use refugees for “hybrid attacks” to Europe. Lithuania and Latvia decided to burn out from Belarus with barbed wire fence.
In turn, Lukashenko introduced a bill to the parliament, which provides for the freezing of the obligations of Minsk on receiving the back of illegal immigrants, which arrived in the EU from the territory of Belarus.