Malid, good 43-yr old gay Iranian man traveling with eleven other people, and one lady, revealed an unlawful pushback out of Poland to Belarus to your April cuatro:
We had stepped during the freezing cold and you will snow to own 7 so you’re able to seven occasions when Belarusian guards caught united states therefore we were wet, fatigued, and you may instead times. I wandered regarding 2 or three kilometers within the Poland prior to we had arrested. They [Polish border shields] lost all of our devices and so they grabbed my personal bank card… I inquired them to indicate to us admiration and since I did, I happened to be banged, punched, tasered, and you can pepper sprayed… They [Gloss border shields] expected united states whenever we want asylum during the Poland. We advised all of them that if it i want to get asylum during the Poland I will and you will expected to mention legal counsel into the Warsaw. I told them I happened to be a keen Lgbt asylum hunter … However they refused to take on my personal allege. It don’t proper care.
Malid told you he along with his group have been brought to a line station, where they were photographed, fingerprinted, and you will advised to help you signal a file enabling reduction regarding Gloss region and you will good step three-season re-entryway exclude to all the countries on the free direction Schengen area. I refused to indication, so that they [edging guards] knocked me personally. They drove all of us back once again to the fresh new edging making all of us get across within the wall. We had been worn out, nonetheless moist, no opportunity, and had no solutions but to touch this new Belarusian cord fence to end up in the latest sensors become found by Belarusian shields…
Hamid, 33, from Yemen, said the guy together with four anyone else from their class, and regarding Yemen, gotten the assistance of Shine volunteers to the p, however, was basically then arrested by the Polish border shields and pressed right back even after his pleas for asylum:
When the volunteers came to us prior to one to day it asked all of us when we need asylum therefore said sure. They provided all of us powers of attorneys to exhibit edging shields. In addition got a newspaper on European Court of Human Rights. We said Needs protection into the Poland and that i has an appropriate user. They [border guards] denied and you can told you we shall speak about they where you work. But alternatively, they [edging guards] handcuffed us, and you can drove us to the fresh cord [border]. ..It [border guards] made all of us wade around the and you will tossed our very own passports on united states.
We had been trapped about swamp, ingesting swamp drinking water, and you may called the Gloss volunteers to have let, but as we was basically during the a dangerous area, volunteers decided not to started so they titled firefighters so you can cut all of us
Ramzah, part of a group of sixteen some body, also female and you may students, asserted that he and anyone else got delivered handwritten cards stating I’d like asylum:
In the event the border shields came, we required asylum and you may shown all of them records in which we had composed asylum from inside the Polish and English. It [border shields] advised all of us You don’t have those individuals records and you may put them away hop over to this web site. We were delivered to a channel and you may questioned for a few period, up until approximately cuatro a.m.. Then they grabbed me to the latest edging, opened the fence, gave us back all of our passports and mobile phones and advised united states to check out Belarus. I didn’t protest because I realized they will force united states back.
Whenever i requested my passport straight back, you to definitely edging shield struck myself across my back which have a black colored baton
Azwer, a good twenty two-year-dated Kurdish guy off Iraq, travelled along with his 50-year-old mother having a broken foot and two more youthful brothers, 19 and 20. The guy told you these were stranded having half a dozen weeks versus food or water throughout the edging area between Belarus and you will Poland, prior to to be able to get across to your Poland with the April fifteen with about 13 someone else, and five other women and you will three students. The guy described how it happened when they was trapped of the Shine border guards:
