Illegal Migrant Pushbacks in Lithuania – The state of Lithuanian law and why it even legalises deportation.
Human Rights in Europe
Amnesty International EAAC
5.0 • 2 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In our interview with Sergej Stoma from the Diversity Development Group in Lithuania, we explore the reasons behind illegal migrant pushbacks and deportation at the Lithuanian border, especially to Belarus. What is the judiciary behind this and how did it come about? In this first episode, we seek to understand the dynamics of the situation better and reflect on the European Court of Justice‘s evaluation of it. In our second episode (to be published next week) we update on recent judiciary happenings, more specifically court decisions, and evaluate what this may mean for migrants entering Lithuania in the future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome again to our Amnesty International's podcast on human rights in Europe. |
| 0:13.0 | Today's episode is part of a series on a topic everybody surely is familiar with, especially from the |
| 0:20.0 | Maghring Crisis in 2015, illegal |
| 0:22.6 | refugee pushbacks. |
| 0:24.5 | Some may think that this topic is now water under the bridge, but if you do think this, |
| 0:28.9 | you are wrong. |
| 0:30.0 | It is still a burning human rights issue in several European countries, be this in the UK, |
| 0:34.8 | Poland, Greece or Lithuania. Lithuania is precisely the country we are speaking |
| 0:40.0 | about today. I'm pleased to welcome Sergei Stoma from the Diversity Development Group in |
| 0:45.6 | Lithuania that work on this topic on a daily basis. Hi, Sergei, welcome. May I ask you to |
| 0:53.5 | shortly introduce yourself to the listeners, please? |
| 0:56.8 | Hello, Amira. Thank you very much for this invitation. I'm very happy to be here with you today. |
| 1:02.7 | So I'm actually representing a Lithuanian NGO, which is called Diversity Development Group. It is an NGO founded in 2012. |
| 1:11.6 | It is an nonprofit organization with an objective |
| 1:14.6 | to carry out social, |
| 1:16.8 | in that I mean scientific applied |
| 1:18.8 | to infrastructural projects and research |
| 1:20.9 | in the field of human trafficking, human rights, |
| 1:23.2 | education, equal opportunities, diversity, |
| 1:25.9 | and as well, migration and integration. |
| 1:30.3 | And so our experience covers both qualitative and quantitative research, |
| 1:35.3 | evaluation of migrant integration indicators and monitoring tools of migration policies. |
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