{"id":4019,"date":"2021-07-16T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d9lb3qyw8jhbr.cloudfront.net\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2021-07-16T16:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:16:19","slug":"human-constantas-position-on-the-migration-crisis-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d9lb3qyw8jhbr.cloudfront.net\/en\/human-constantas-position-on-the-migration-crisis-in-lithuania\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Constanta\u2019s position on the migration crisis in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
On 13 July 2021 during an emergency session of Lithuania\u2019s parliament, it has passed a resolution, which proposes to qualify undocumented migrants crossing the Belarusian-Lithuanian border as participants of a hybrid attack of Belarus against Lithuania. The document does not define the term \u201chybrid attack\u201d and does not qualify such notion from the international law viewpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Parliament has also approved the amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens (hereinafter \u2013 the Law), which allows to arrest and detain foreigners, as well as to limit their right to leave their place of residence, if they have entered the country illegally or crossed the border while the state of emergency was in place. The new edition of the Law limits the right of migrants to appeal the refusal to grant asylum in court and stipulates that migrants can be deported even when their appeals are being considered. Therefore, the Law allows for mass detention of foreigners, whose entry is deemed illegal, and significantly limits their access to legal remedies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n