Sienos
2023
In early 2023, Lithuania legalized so-called pushbacks through a fast-track procedure, which allows people to be deported back to Belarus or their countries of origin immediately after fleeing. Despite the fact that these pushbacks violate current EU law, they continue to be carried out. I spent a week in Vilnius and Pabradė, a small village which about ten kilometers from the belarusian border. There I accompanied the NGO Sienos Grupė in its work and met people in the refugee camps who shared their stories with me.