Since March, several humanitarian organisations have been concerned about new cases of violence and migrants being pushed back at the border between Poland and Belarus. Last year, thousands of people from Afghanistan, the Middle East and central Africa tried to reach the European Union by illegally entering Poland. Warsaw accused the regime in Minsk of orchestrating this influx of migrants.
On April 19, a man from Iraqi Kurdistan sent activists a video appeal for help: "It's four in the morning. As you can see, they have pushed us back to Belarus, we are wet". It is dark and the group is in the middle of the forest.
