So far this year, more than 4,100 asylum-seekers, most of them from Iraq, have illegally crossed from Belarus into Lithuania. Many of the migrants were believed to have arrived in Belarus by plane on commercial flights from Iraq. Still, Lithuania’s border guard released video footage on Wednesday which it said reveals that migrants are being pushed across the border into EU territory by Belarus riot police. Another video showed several people cross into Lithuania and immediately return to Belarus to be filmed by Belarus officials. It is both an issue of human rights, and also a question of protecting the border of the EU,” Sassoli said.

Source: ABC News August 18, 2021 12:11 UTC