Malid, a beneficial 43-yr old gay Iranian guy traveling with eleven anyone else, and additionally a single woman, described an unlawful pushback regarding Poland to Belarus on April 4:

We’d walked into the cold cold and you can accumulated snow to possess eight to 7 occasions whenever Belarusian shields trapped us and now we have been moist, exhausted, and you will versus opportunity. I stepped on two or three kilometers within the Poland before we had arrested. They [Gloss edging shields] missing our phones and they grabbed my personal credit card… I inquired these to show us value and since I did so, I became kicked, punched, tasered, and you may pepper sprayed… It [Shine border guards] expected united states if we wanted asylum inside Poland. We advised all of them that in case they i’d like to make an application for asylum in the Poland I am able to and you may requested to call a lawyer in the Warsaw. I told all of them I became a keen Lgbt asylum seeker … Nonetheless refused to deal with my claim. It failed to proper care.

Malid told you the guy and his category was basically brought to an edge channel, where these people were shoot, fingerprinted, and you can advised to help you indication a document permitting removal out-of Gloss territory and you can a beneficial 3-12 months re also-entryway ban to all the countries in the totally free course Schengen zone. I would not signal, so that they [border guards] banged me. They drove you to the fresh new edging and made all of us cross according to the wall. We had been tired, however damp, without time, along with no alternatives however, to touch the Belarusian cable wall to help you bring about the new detectors becoming picked up because of the Belarusian guards…

Hamid, 33, out-of Yemen, told you the guy in addition to five others out-of his classification, and additionally of Yemen, acquired aid from Gloss volunteers towards the p, however, were then detained because of the Gloss border shields and you may pressed back even with their pleas to possess asylum:

In the event that volunteers concerned you before one to morning it expected you when we need asylum and then we told you yes. It offered all of us vitality out-of attorneys to show border guards. In addition got a newsprint from the Western european Legal from Individual Rights. I said Needs protection in Poland and that i features a legal affiliate. It [edging guards] refused and said we will mention it of working. But rather, they [border shields] handcuffed united states, and you can drove me to the fresh new cord [border]. ..They [edging shields] produced us go around the and tossed our passports within united states.

We were caught on the swamp, taking beautiful macedonian girl swamp h2o, and you can called the Shine volunteers to own help, however, once we was in the a dangerous town, volunteers couldn’t become so they called firefighters so you’re able to conserve all of us

Ramzah, element of a group of sixteen anybody, together with women and you can pupils, asserted that the guy and other people had put handwritten cards claiming I want asylum:

If the border guards came, we required asylum and you can shown all of them papers where we had written asylum inside the Gloss and English. They [border guards] informed united states There is no need those people paperwork and tossed all of them aside. We had been taken to a route and requested for a couple of instances, up until everything cuatro an effective.m.. They got us to the new border, unsealed the fresh new fence, provided all of us right back the passports and you may devices and you may informed united states to go to Belarus. I didn’t protest once the We realized they might push us right back.

Whenever i requested my personal passport straight back, you to border guard hit me around the my personal straight back with a black colored baton

Azwer, good 22-year-dated Kurdish guy from Iraq, flew with his 50-year-old mommy which have a cracked toes and two younger brothers, 19 and 20. He said they were stuck to possess six days instead food otherwise drinking water in the edging urban area between Belarus and you may Poland, prior to to be able to mix into the Poland with the April 15 having at the least 13 someone else, and five other female and you can about three students. He revealed what happened after they was indeed trapped because of the Polish border guards: