On the need to observe the right to asylum at the Latvia-Belarus border and the legal action against Ieva Raubiško, staff member of the organization “I want to help refugees”

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Since August 2021, people have been arriving at Latvia-Belarus border with the goal of crossing the so-called green border (where there are no official crossing points) and seeking asylum. The flow of people has been inconsistent: in the summer of 2023, there were an average of 35 attempts to cross the border daily; yet the number of border crossings tripled in the autumn of 2023, with an average of 106 cases per day in September and 93 per day in October. Border crossings saw a significant decline in November 2023, with an average of 28 per day. This trend continued in December 2023, with an average of 4 per day or a total of 135 for the entire month. Only 5 people attempted to cross the Latvia-Belarus border in January 2024.

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Regarding legalisation of push-backs in Lithuania

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On 25 April 2023, the Lithuanian Parliament adopted amendments to the Law on StateBorder and its Protection, allowing for pushbacks of irregular border-crossers under a state of emergency declared due to mass influx of irregular migrants. The amendments also introduce a figure of state-funded civil “supporter” to the Lithuanian Border Guard entitled to use violent

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European Commissioner for Human Rights criticises the extension of the state of emergency at the Latvian-Belarusian border

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European Commissioner for Human Rights has published a letter addressed to the Minister of the Interior of Latvia, Māris Kučinskis, criticising the continued state of emergency at the Latvian-Belarusian border and the criminalisation of the work of human rights defenders. In her letter to the Minister of the Interior, Commissioner Dunja Mijatović stresses that the

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An open letter regarding the initiation of criminal proceedings against the representatives of the organisation “I Want to Help Refugees”

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“I want to help refugees”/”Gribu palīdzēt bēgļiem” information about criminal proceedings against its representatives On 11 January 2023, a representative of “I Want to Help Refugees” Ieva Raubiško received a letter addressed to her from the European Court of Human Rights regarding the decision in the case “M.A. and others v. Latvia”. With this decision,

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