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“We do not go into details, but during the pre-trial investigation no one has been charged, three people, possibly asylum seekers, have been questioned as special witnesses,” Rasa Stundžienė, representative of the Panevėžys Regional Prosecutor’s Office, told BNS. .
The news portal 15min.lt was the first to report it.
Special witness status is granted to a person when questioned about their actions, but grounds for suspicion are not sufficient.
Last week, law enforcement launched a pre-trial investigation into the illegal cover-up of Afghans who had complained to the ECHR in Lithuania. Antanas Montvydas, deputy chief of the State Border Guard Service (SBGS), reported on the matter on Tuesday.
In early September, the ECHR applied provisional measures in the case of five Afghan citizens against Lithuania, temporarily preventing their deportation.
The ECHR report stated 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. According to SBGS, they came from Belarus and were rejected. In mid-September, border guards detained them again, but this time they allowed them to apply for asylum.
Lithuania requested the ECHR to annul the decision on provisional measures.
The SBGS reports that it had no information that the Afghans had been 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 4.1 thousand people entered Lithuania through the border with Belarus. 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.
