The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued an interim measure on Wednesday, banning Lithuania from pushing four Pakistanis back to Belarus, 15min.lt reports.
This was confirmed by Karolina Bubnytė-Sirmienė, the Lithuanian government's representative at the Strasbourg court.
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According to 15min.lt, the migrants were taken by border guards to the Kabeliai frontier station at around 17:00 on Wednesday after spending five days in a forest. During this time, they were supplied with clothes and food, the website said.
Giedrius Mišutis, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service (VSAT), told 15min.lt that the migrants had no documents and officers were still working to confirm their identities.
On Thursday, Pakistanis applied for asylum in Lithuania.
"All four have applied for asylum. The usual procedures have started, and the collected data will be passed on to the Migration Department," Mišutis told BNS.
Currently, the migrants are at the Kabeliai frontier station. They have been tested for Covid-19 and will soon be transferred to one of the migrant accommodation centres.
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