Malid, an excellent 43-year old gay Iranian guy vacationing with eleven anyone else, together with an individual woman, described an unlawful pushback off Poland in order to Belarus on the April cuatro:

We’d moved inside freezing cold and you can snow to have eight so you’re able to seven instances whenever Belarusian shields stuck united states and we also was in fact moist, sick, and instead times. We moved on a couple of kilometers inside the Poland just before i got arrested. They [Gloss border shields] shed our mobile phones plus they took my personal credit card… I asked these to indicate to us esteem and since I did so, I found myself banged, punched, tasered treffit Kolumbia naiset, and pepper dispersed… It [Polish border guards] asked united states if we want asylum into the Poland. I advised them whenever it i would ike to apply for asylum inside the Poland I am able to and you may asked to name a legal professional into the Warsaw. We advised them I was a keen Gay and lesbian asylum seeker … Even so they refused to deal with my personal allege. It don’t worry.

Malid said the guy and his awesome group was brought to an edge route, in which these people were shoot, fingerprinted, and you can informed in order to sign a document providing treatment of Polish region and you can an excellent step 3-seasons re-entryway prohibit to all or any countries on totally free direction Schengen area. I would not indication, so they [edging guards] knocked me. Then they drove united states back into the newest border and made you mix under the barrier. We had been fatigued, nonetheless damp, with no time, and had zero alternatives however, to touch the fresh Belarusian wire fence so you can produce the newest devices as obtained because of the Belarusian guards…

Hamid, 33, off Yemen, said the guy together with four anybody else regarding his class, plus away from Yemen, obtained the aid of Polish volunteers to your p, but was up coming arrested from the Polish edging shields and pressed straight back even after their pleas getting asylum:

When the volunteers concerned all of us earlier one morning they questioned united states if we want asylum and now we said sure. It provided you energies out-of lawyer to display edging guards. I also got a magazine from the Eu Court away from Peoples Legal rights. We said Needs coverage into the Poland and that i features a legal affiliate. They [border shields] declined and you can told you we’re going to mention they at your workplace. But alternatively, it [edging guards] handcuffed united states, and you can drove us to the latest cord [border]. ..They [border shields] made united states go round the and you will tossed all of our passports in the united states.

We had been trapped throughout the swamp, sipping swamp water, and you will called the Gloss volunteers to possess assist, however, once we was in fact from inside the a risky town, volunteers decided not to become so they really titled firefighters so you’re able to conserve us

Ramzah, section of several sixteen individuals, including women and students, said that the guy as well as the anyone else had lead handwritten notes saying I would like asylum:

If the border guards showed up, i wanted asylum and you can demonstrated them documents where we had composed asylum within the Gloss and you may English. They [border shields] told you You don’t need to men and women files and you will threw all of them out. We had been brought to a route and you can questioned for a couple of times, up until approximately 4 a.meters.. Chances are they took me to the latest edging, unwrapped the fresh wall, provided united states right back our very own passports and you will phones and informed you to consult with Belarus. I didn’t protest since the I understood they will force all of us right back.

Once i asked for my passport straight back, that border protect hit me personally across my right back which have a black colored rod

Azwer, an excellent twenty-two-year-dated Kurdish people regarding Iraq, travelled with his fifty-year-old mom with a broken foot and two more youthful brothers, 19 and you will 20. He told you they certainly were stranded getting six months in place of food or h2o on edging city between Belarus and you may Poland, before having the ability to mix for the Poland into the April 15 having about thirteen anyone else, in addition to five most other women and you can about three pupils. He demonstrated what happened once they have been trapped of the Shine border guards: