Malid, a great 43-year old gay Iranian man vacationing with 11 anybody else, including one lady, discussed a criminal pushback out-of Poland to help you Belarus on April 4:
We’d moved during the freezing cool and you will snowfall getting 7 so you can 7 circumstances whenever Belarusian guards stuck us and we was in fact moist, exhausted, and you can in place of times. I stepped about a couple of miles from inside the Poland just before i got arrested. It [Gloss edging guards] missing our very own phones in addition they took my personal mastercard… I inquired them to show us esteem and because Used to do, I became kicked, punched, tasered, and you may pepper sprayed… They [Gloss edging shields] requested all of us whenever we need asylum in the Poland. I informed all of them when it allow me to get asylum during the Poland I’m able to and requested to call legal counsel when you look at the Warsaw. We informed all of them I happened to be a keen Lgbt asylum seeker … But they refused to take on my claim. It didn’t proper care.
Malid said he with his classification were delivered to an edge channel, in which these people were photographed, fingerprinted, and advised in order to sign a document providing reduction of Polish region and good step three-season re-entry ban to nations throughout the free course Schengen area. We refused verkkosivut täällГ¤ to indication, so they [border shields] knocked me personally. Chances are they drove us back again to this new border and made us cross within the wall. We had been exhausted, nevertheless wet, without time, and had zero possibilities however, to touch this new Belarusian wire barrier so you can lead to the new detectors to be obtained from the Belarusian guards…
Hamid, 33, off Yemen, told you the guy while the five others out of their category, together with off Yemen, obtained the assistance of Polish volunteers on p, but have been upcoming detained of the Polish border shields and you will pushed straight back despite his pleas to possess asylum:
If the volunteers came to us before one morning they asked united states when we need asylum therefore we said sure. They gave all of us vitality out of lawyer to exhibit edging shields. In addition got a papers on the Western european Judge away from Person Rights. We told you Needs shelter for the Poland and i has actually a legal associate. It [edging guards] refuted and you will told you we’re going to discuss it in the office. But alternatively, they [edging guards] handcuffed all of us, and drove us to this new wire [border]. ..They [edging shields] generated united states go all over and you will tossed the passports during the all of us.
We were stuck on the swamp, taking swamp water, and you will known as Polish volunteers to possess assist, however, once we was indeed in a risky area, volunteers couldn’t already been so that they named firefighters to help you save us
Ramzah, section of a team of 16 people, as well as female and children, mentioned that the guy in addition to other people got put handwritten notes stating I’d like asylum:
In the event that edging shields came, i requested asylum and you can presented them paperwork where we’d authored asylum for the Polish and you will English. They [edging guards] advised you There is no need those people records and you may threw all of them away. We were brought to a station and you will requested for a couple of times, up until approximately 4 an effective.yards.. They grabbed me to brand new border, opened the fence, offered you right back all of our passports and mobile phones and you may told united states to consult with Belarus. I didn’t protest once the We know they’d push all of us back.
Once i wanted my passport straight back, one edging protect hit me personally across the my personal straight back with a black colored baton
Azwer, a great twenty-two-year-dated Kurdish guy out of Iraq, flew with his fifty-year-old mommy with a reduced toes and two young brothers, 19 and you will 20. He told you they were stranded getting half dozen months instead of dining or liquid in the edging area anywhere between Belarus and you will Poland, before having the ability to cross with the Poland towards the April 15 with at the least thirteen someone else, including five most other women and you may three students. The guy discussed how it happened once they was caught from the Shine edging guards: