nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210826-233031-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210826s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210826-233031-0 doi eng 342 23 Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Author aut The EU’s Face in Łukašenka’s Mirror Inhuman Treatment of Afghan Hostages at the Polish-Belarusian Border and the Promise of EU Values Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Verfassungsblog 2021-08-26 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On the Polish-Belarusian border thirty-two Afghan citizens have been sitting quite literally between the Belarusian border guards on the one side and Polish border guards, army and police on the other for two weeks now. They sit there without access to water, food or medical aid. They sit there claiming their rights under EU and International law. Yet, they are not allowed to ask for asylum or establish any contact with the outside world. The tragic situation of those thirty-two hostages exemplifies both how devastating the consequences of rule-of-law backsliding might be and how closely linked the rule of law breakdown in Poland and the general denigration of EU values in the field of migration are. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Belarus ECHR Migration Grabowska-Moroz, Barbara Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-eus-face-in-lukasenkas-mirror/ raw object