A search of her home found dozens of documents belonging to asylum seekers, most of whom had unlawfully left Poland.
A search of her home found dozens of documents belonging to asylum seekers, most of whom had unlawfully left Poland.
The building was vandalised with red paint, dog faeces and slogans saying “killers”and “fuck the wall”.
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Agnieszka Wądołowska
“We need to ask the Ukrainian refugees in Poland how they want to solve their problems.”
Andrzej Poczobut has been imprisoned without trial since March 2021.
The incident has caused outrage in Poland, where the public have been overwhelmingly welcoming towards refugees from Ukraine
Tom Diserens
The wall, which was exempted from environmental laws, runs through protected natural habits.
“Sentencing journalists to prison terms is a violation of human rights and international standards,” the ministry said.
The human rights rapporteur paid tribute to Polish citizens for their solidarity and generosity.
Warsaw says the “barbaric” incident is part of an “anti-Polish campaign by the Belarusian authorities”.
Poland has offered sanctuary to thousands of Belarusians fleeing repression by Lukashenko’s regime.
The land corridor between the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus has long been seen as a potential weak point in a war with Russia.
Since September last year, all non-residents – including journalists and humanitarian groups – have been banned from the area.
This is not the first time that “procedures were exploited [by asylum seekers] to travel illegally to the West”, says the border guard.
It is the second such ruling.