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The portal’s reporter reported the Afghans’ whereabouts in a live broadcast on Delfi TV.
ELTA recalls that the ECHR decided on Wednesday to grant precautionary measures in the case of Sadeed and others. against Lithuania by five Afghan nationals who tried to enter Lithuania from Belarus and now claim to be in hiding in Lithuania. The measure will apply until 2021. September 29 inclusive.
The court report states that the plaintiffs are Afghan citizens.
It is alleged that they arrived in Belarus in August. Since then, they have tried to come to Lithuania several times to seek international protection.
Adviser: The story with the Afghans mentioned by the ECHR is strange, the situation needs to be clarified
The adviser to President Asta Skaisgirytė says that the story of the five Afghans mentioned by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is “quite strange”, asking for further clarification of the situation.
“This story with five Afghans is, I would say, quite strange, because the relevant Lithuanian institutions do not have the facts to back up what the ECHR is writing. Only those facts need to be examined more closely, whether it is true or not must be understood,” he said. on Tuesday the adviser to the head of state to News Radio.
“I would say that the solution would be to appeal this ruling and further clarify the situation,” he added.
As Karolina Bubnytė-Širmenė, a government representative at the ECHR, told BNS last week, Lithuania expects to apply to the Strasbourg court in a few days for its decision to refuse to return Afghans to Belarus.
Last week, the ECHR applied provisional measures in the case of five Afghan citizens against Lithuania, temporarily preventing their deportation.
According to K. Bubnytė-Širmenė, this decision does not oblige Lithuania to admit these people and is highlighted in the court decision itself.
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. The migrants say they fled Afghanistan because they would be persecuted by the Taliban regime, which has taken control of the country.
The ECHR was informed that the migrants were unable to enter Lithuania several times, were returned to Belarus and trapped at the border, and have been in hiding in Lithuania since 5 September.
Meanwhile, Lithuanian border guards say that these migrants arrived at the Lithuanian border from Belarus on Thursday, so they were not admitted. Border guard Rustam Liubayev believes that the court may have been misled about the whereabouts of the migrants.
Asta Astrauskienė, a lawyer representing the Afghan law firm Spectrum legis, says that they were on the territory of Lithuania and that Lithuania had no right to expel them to Belarus.
This year, more than 4.1 thousand people entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus. illegal migrants.
The Ministry recalls that an emergency situation has been declared in Lithuania since July 2: it has facilitated legal regulation and allowed faster decision-making, the use of government reserve funds to cover municipal expenses and other institutions.
In response to the crisis, amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Foreigners were passed, speeding up asylum procedures, a special law on the installation of more than 500 kilometers of physical barriers on the Belarusian border, and other laws were amended.
The ministry emphasizes that some 25 kilometers of sharp wire, the so-called concert halls, are currently being laid in the most sensitive stretches of the border.
According to the report, 45 bilateral and multilateral meetings have been held during the three months of the crisis, and Lithuania is receiving increasing support and assistance, with the European Commission alone providing Lithuania with € 37 million in emergency aid to meet immediate needs. Bilaterally, Lithuania also received assistance from experts from Austria, Estonia, Poland, Slovenia and Ukraine, and a total of 18 countries offered humanitarian and technical assistance, in addition to the aforementioned countries.
The Ministry recalls that Lithuania has also approved the voluntary return procedure, according to which those who agree to return voluntarily to their homeland receive plane tickets and a benefit of 300 euros.
It is also promised that as the cold season approaches, all migrants from temporary accommodation will be relocated to heated camps and “all necessary infrastructure” by October. When relocating migrants, priority is given to families with young children, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups.
About 20 migrants were handed over to the border with Belarus last day, no one was admitted
About 20 migrants were handed over to the border with Belarus last day, none of them were admitted, the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) said on Tuesday.
Before that, there were around 40 dropouts on Sunday and around 10 on Saturday.
Last day, foreigners from Belarus approached the Lithuanian border in the districts of Ignalina, Švenčionys, Šalčininkai and Lazdijai and the municipality of Druskininkai. The largest group of migrants consisted of four people.
According to SBGS, three signal rockets were fired in the Švenčionys district on the Belarusian side at night, and another similar missile was launched there before midnight.
Border guards claim they lost the use of service weapons, special measures or physical coercion to the Lithuanian border guards and the soldiers who assisted them last day.
Border control on the Lithuanian side is carried out under a reinforced regime.
This year, more than 4,000 people illegally entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus. migrants.
Vilnius accuses the Minsk regime of organizing migration flows and calls it hybrid aggression. As a result, a state of emergency has been declared in the country.
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