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 Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-9266-1188 Grabowska-Moroz, Barbara Author aut Text xx# 2021 Verfassungsblog 2021-08-26 eng
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 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Belarus ECHR Migration 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-eus-face-in-lukasenkas-mirror/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20210826-233031-0 210826 10.17176/20210826-233031-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)