Vilnius, Lithuania: Red Cross warned on Wednesday that Lithuanian’s decision to turn immigrants who tried to cross from neighboring Belarus did not comply with international law.
Lithuania, a member of the European Union, has faced the waves of most Asian migrants in recent months.
It was said that it was due to retaliation by Belarus authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko after the European Union gave sanctions on his country for the incidence of air piracy.
The Lithuanian Ministry of Home this week distributes video shots from helicopters who show large groups of immigrants escorted to the Lithuanian border by Belarusian border guards.
On Tuesday, Lithuania said it was entitled to use the power to stop illegal immigration like that and turned 180 people trying to enter the country.
But rights groups noted that all countries have an obligation to protect vulnerable people.
“Pushback People who seek asylum are not compatible with the Geneva Conventions about the status of refugees, European Union Charter Fundamental Rights and other human rights instruments ” Ele Samuchovaite, Director of the Program for the Red Cross Lithuania, told the Associated Press.
Samuchovaite also shows it refused Recognition of people who are vulnerable to the country will put them into an insecure environment, trapped between two countries.
“In the absence of physical border barriers with Belarus, the question arises on how to ensure that there is no use of disproportional forces against searchers Asylum, which in any way cannot be justified, “he said, adding that the Red Cross understood the challenges of the country in protecting the borders.
Lithuania did not have physical obstacles for a long border of 679 kilometers (420 miles) with Belarus.
35 others crossed to Lithuania illegally on Wednesday, according to the state border bodyguard service, but this was significantly lower than the number of triple-digits from the previous days.
Belarus claims Wednesday that “non-Slavic” people died of injury in the border city but Lithuania rejected the report as a propaganda of a hostile regime.
“This is nonsense, a brother of Grimm Dongy Donge, ‘Lithuanian Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite told reporters.
Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas was called the report’ ‘clear provocation.
Lithuania is under a hybrid attack and disseminates the information is a classic example of This process.
” Around 4,090 migrants, most of them from Iraq, have crossed this year from Belarus to Lithuania, a state of less than 3 million.