He criticised the way in which political leaders have portrayed refugees and migrants as “human weapons” in a “hybrid war”, using this to justify not respecting their rights.

He criticised the way in which political leaders have portrayed refugees and migrants as “human weapons” in a “hybrid war”, using this to justify not respecting their rights.
So far this year, there have been almost 28,000 attempted illegal crossings, more than in the whole of 2023.
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Poland says it is monitoring the situation but that there is no need for “panic”.
The arrival of Wagner forces in Belarus “could mark a new phase of hybrid warfare”, says Jarosław Kaczyński.
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The governments say, however, that there is “currently no justification for reintroducing border controls” as two German states requested.
The sanctions come in response to Belarus’s Supreme Court upholding the eight-year prison sentence against Andrzej Poczobut.
Poland’s human rights office has visited the group to ascertain their status.
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Warsaw welcomed the decision, calling it “the first positive news from Minsk in a long time.”
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She suggested that hundreds of migrants who crossed from Belarus could have died and been buried in mass graves to hide the evidence.
This is further “destruction of Polish cultural heritage in Belarus by the Lukashenko regime”, says Poland’s foreign ministry.
The decision comes a day after the jailing of an ethnic Polish leader by Belarus.