Latvian authorities should investigate human rights abuses at border with Belarus

Date of article: 25/08/2022

Daily News of: 25/08/2022

Country:  EUROPE

Author: Council of Europe

Article language: en

In a letter addressed to the Latvian Minister of the Interior published today, Commissioner Mijatović expresses her concern about the reports of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants having been violently prevented from entering Latvia from Belarus, held in inhumane conditions in the forest, denied access to the asylum procedure, and forced into signing voluntary return declarations...

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