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The ECHR press release states that the decision was based on the fact that the Afghan citizens in question were on Lithuanian territory and that the Government “assured the Court that they would not be deported from Lithuania until their asylum applications had been examined. “.
The Strasbourg court report also states that Afghans can reapply for interim measures if circumstances so require.
The court also ruled that the content of the file was confidential so that applicants could remain anonymous.
In early September, the ECHR applied provisional measures in the case of five Afghan citizens against Lithuania, temporarily preventing their deportation. This decision expires on Thursday.
An ECHR report claims 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.
Shortly after the decision was announced, they were detained at the border. The State Border Guard Service (SBGS) says they came from Belarus and were turned away. In mid-September, border guards detained them again, but this time they allowed them to apply for asylum.
Lithuania applied to the ECHR to annul the decision on provisional measures.
The SBGS reports that it had no data that the Afghans were in Lithuania prior to the arrest on 9 September.
Afghan lawyer Asta Astrauskienė says illegal immigrants in Lithuania lived on a farm for some time, the owners of which helped the immigrants to get in touch with a lawyer. According to her, after the Afghans later met with the border guards, they were expelled to Belarus.
This year, more than 4,000 people entered Lithuania through the Belarusian border. illegal migrants from the Middle East and Africa.
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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