• Belsat.eu: including the Polish one wants to get approx. 500 people
• It is primarily refugees from the Caucasus, mostly from Chechnya
• For many months unsuccessfully trying to enter the Polish
• Chechens want to meet with Polish diplomats
• Border Guards: if you were not allowed you probably did not meet the conditions
• UNHCR in Poland, we are concerned about these reports
The camp inhabitants of the Caucasus is located near the border crossing “Brest”. The refugees live there under the open sky. As you say, the Polish seeks to enter about a half thousand people. However, Belarusian border guards believe that in the vicinity of Brest can be up to four times the population of the North Caucasus.
The migrants repeatedly tried to enter the Polish, but each time they were turned away by Polish border guards. Belsat.eu reporter showed passports with dozens of seals denied entry. Also complain about the Polish border police brutality.
As a reason for refusal of permission to enter the Polish border guards fit in the documents of two words: “no visa”. – But as a refugee you can get a visa? Chechens do not give visas. Groove of us – said Abdullah, one of the Chechens, who was interviewed by a journalist Service tut.by.
According to the migrants at the railway border crossing in Terespol they are accepted daily applications of two-three Chechen families out of a total of several hundred people. The others are sent back to Brest next train.
The refugees are reluctant to talk about the reasons for his departure from the country. They do not want it to be filmed. Those who agreed to an interview with reporters, explain that the North Caucasus is not a safe place, and every day you can instantly lose a life.
Belsat.eu emphasizes that the camp, which was on the border is an attempt to draw attention of the Polish authorities to the problem of migrants.
Portal tut.by announced that the board of a local citizenship and migration department of the Interior addressed the matter to the Polish diplomats. – The point is that they met with the citizens of Chechen nationality, to explain to them the laws of his country – whom they admit refugees who accept who do not accept – said the head of the board of Alexander Tamaszou.
According to his words, “the only demand” on the part of Chechens is meeting with representatives of the Polish side. – After that they will be ready or go on Polish territory, if they are admitted, or back to where they came – he added Tamaszou.
According to tut.by, the people of Chechen citizens of the Russian Federation could not be reached for comment at the Consulate General of Russia in Brest.
According to the website telegraf.by some Chechens are proposing to move to the area of neutral lane between the state border of Belarus and Polish. Others are considering travel to Terespol bus.
A spokeswoman for the Chief of the Border Guard Agnieszka Golias, asked about this issue, emphasized that it is about people who reside on the territory of Belarus. – We do not know whether they are Chechens, because we do not have the documents. We do not know how many of these people, whether they are for example not rotate – she added. Inquired whether it was true that they were not admitted to the Polish territory, said that “if you have not sunk it probably does not meet the conditions of entry.”
spokesman for UNHCR in Poland Rafal Kostrzyński stressed that international law, as well as Polish, provides that persons who want to apply for international protection should be afforded the opportunity, even if they reach the border without the required documents travel.
– We are concerned about reports both in the media and from foreigners who call us every day from the border, complaining that they can not submit an application for refugee status – said Kostrzyński.
He noted that the statistics provided by the Border Guard clearly show that this year the refusal of entry got more people than last, while decreasing the number of people who applied for refugee status. – We would like to know if among those not admitted to the Polish were people who intended to apply for asylum. That’s why we turned to the SG for permission to enter the railway border crossing in Terespol, to see if all those who need it have access to asylum procedures and what are the reasons for increase in the number of people who have returned to Belarus – informed.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner. Refugees (UNHCR) reports that, in accordance with the Geneva Convention of 1951., A refugee is a person who “due to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or unwilling, owing to such fear enjoy the protection of that country “.
A person applying for refugee status is one who claims to be a refugee and in need of international protection against persecution or serious harm in their own country. National asylum systems are designed to determine which applicants for refugee status actually qualify to obtain it.
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