The ECHR did not allow the deportation of Afghans from Belarus hiding in Lithuania



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The ECHR announced that it had made such a decision in a case against Sadeed and others against Lithuania, involving five Afghan nationals who claim to have entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus and are in hiding in the country.

According to the judicial report, the precautionary measures are valid until September 29.

The report indicates that the applicators are Afghan nationals who arrived in Belarus in August this year.

According to the report, they have since tried to enter Lithuania to apply for political asylum. The migrants say they fled Afghanistan because they would be persecuted by the Taliban regime, which has taken control of the country.

The ECHR also notes that migrants have been unable to enter Lithuania several times, have been returned to Belarus and have been stranded at the border, and have been hiding in Lithuania since 5 September.

Afghan citizens have asked the ECHR to suspend their transfer to Belarus and a court in Strasbourg has ruled until September 29 that Lithuania cannot be transferred from the territory of the country where they are already staying.

This year, more than 4.1 thousand people entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus. illegal migrants.

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