Lithuania has ordered the European Court not to return Afghan refugees to Belarus
Lithuania has been ordered not to repel five Afghan refugees trapped at the country’s border with Belarus.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that refugees should be deported because they are already hiding in Lithuania.
The court stated that Afghan citizens arrived in Belarus in August and repeatedly reached Lithuania.
Lithuania and other EU member states have accused Minsk of encouraging migrants to cross the border illegally in order to destabilize the bloc.
As a result of the conflict, people have been trapped at the EU’s external borders, and Belarus has also refused to enter them.
Five af refugees are speaking to the European Court of Human Rights about the issue, claiming that they have been hiding in Lithuania since September 5.
However, Lithuanian border guards reported that the group did not enter the country.
to curb The rule A Strasbourg court ruled internationally that the group was “seeking protection”.
The applicants claimed to be “Western and educated” and were particularly vulnerable after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.
The European Court of Justice has agreed not to extradite Lithuanian governments to Belarus “if they are already in Lithuania.”
The temporary measure, which runs until the end of September, could be extended to other Afghan refugees trapped between the European Union and Belarus in the future.
The UN Migration Agency has expressed concern about the “terrible conditions” facing some migrants a few weeks before the Polish-Belarusian border.