13 Nov 2021

“You don't fight Belarusian disinformation with censorship. On the contrary, journalists should be allowed to document the situation as it is. We cannot accept that a government should encourage this kind of ban on journalistic coverage as soon as a sensitive situation arises. We believe that the state of emergency was introduced mainly to prevent the public from witnessing questionable activities along the country's border with Belarus. Critics have accused the Polish authorities of violating international law by pushing asylum seekers back across the border.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/13/righ...
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Ricardo Gutiérrez

   Journalist

General Secretary of the European Federation of Journalists

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Migrants crossing from Belarus into Poland - Poland militarization of the border

Migrants pushback at the EU external borders

Migrants situation at the border between Poland and Belarus

Polish police and migrants pushback

State of emergency in two Polish regions bordering Belarus due to increase number of illegal migrants

The ban on media at Poland - Belarus border - Impossibility to document the migrants crisis