Malid, a beneficial 43-year-old gay Iranian man vacationing with eleven someone else, along with a single lady, discussed a violent pushback off Poland so you’re able to Belarus toward April 4:
We had moved within the freezing cold and you can snowfall to have eight in order to seven times whenever Belarusian shields trapped you and we was wet, sick, and you may instead times. I wandered from the several kilometers inside Poland ahead of i had detained. They [Gloss border guards] forgotten our very own mobile phones and so they grabbed my personal credit card… I inquired them to indicate to us respect and since Used to do, I found myself kicked, punched, tasered, and you may pepper sprayed… It [Shine edging guards] requested us whenever we wanted asylum into the Poland. We informed them if it i would ike to apply for asylum in the Poland I am able to and you will requested to name a legal professional from inside the Warsaw. We advised them I found myself an enthusiastic Lgbt asylum hunter … But they would not undertake my allege. It don’t care.
Malid said the guy and his class had been delivered to a boundary route, in which these people were snap, fingerprinted, and you can informed in order to indication a document permitting elimination out of Polish region and you may a 3-year re also-admission prohibit to countries on free way Schengen area. I refused to signal, so that they [border shields] knocked me. Then they drove you back into this new edging and made us get across in fence. We were sick, still moist, with no time, and had zero choice but to the touch the latest Belarusian wire fence so you’re able to end in the fresh devices become found because of the Belarusian guards…
Hamid, 33, regarding Yemen, said he and four someone else out-of his class, along with off Yemen, gotten aid from Shine volunteers into p, however, had been following arrested of the Gloss edging guards and you may forced back even with his pleas to have asylum:
When the volunteers involved us prior to one to day it requested you whenever we wanted asylum and we told you sure. It provided all of us vitality out of attorney to show edging shields. In addition had a paper regarding the Western european Judge of People Liberties. We told you Needs defense for the Poland and that i provides an appropriate associate. They [edging guards] refused and told you we shall discuss they in the office. But rather, they [edging shields] handcuffed us, and you may drove us to the fresh cable [border]. ..It [edging shields] produced all of us wade round the and you can put our very own passports from the us.
We were stuck about swamp, consuming swamp drinking water, and you may known as Gloss volunteers to have assist, but while we had been inside the a dangerous city, volunteers didn’t started so they really named firefighters to cut all of us
Ramzah, section of a small grouping of sixteen somebody, in addition to feminine and you can college students, said that he plus the other people got delivered handwritten notes claiming I want asylum:
When the border shields appeared mariГ©e Estonien , we requested asylum and you will exhibited them paperwork in which we’d written asylum inside Shine and you will English. They [edging guards] advised united states There is no need those documents and you will put them aside. We had been delivered to a station and you will expected for a few days, up to just as much as 4 an excellent.m.. Then they grabbed me to the new edging, unsealed the brand new fence, offered you back the passports and you can cell phones and you may told all of us to visit Belarus. I did not protest once the We understood they might push all of us right back.
Once i asked for my passport right back, that border guard struck myself across my straight back that have a black baton
Azwer, a twenty two-year-dated Kurdish guy away from Iraq, flew with his 50-year-dated mommy which have a cracked base as well as 2 young brothers, 19 and you can 20. The guy said these people were stranded having half a dozen weeks rather than eating otherwise h2o on the edging urban area between Belarus and you can Poland, prior to having the ability to cross with the Poland towards April 15 that have at the least thirteen someone else, including five other women and you will about three college students. The guy described how it happened once they was in fact caught from the Shine border guards:
