“In August - September alone, the border service authorities suppressed more than 700 attempts to expel more than 8.5 thousand refugees from the territories of Poland and Lithuania to the territory of Belarus,” he said on the ONT TV channel.
According to Volfovich, physical force is used against people before deportation.
Earlier, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration called for an investigation into the deaths of refugees and migrants in the area of the border between Poland and Belarus.
On September 19, the Polish border service reported that the bodies of three people were found near the Polish-Belarusian border.
On the same day, the Belarusian border service reported that the body of a 39-year-old citizen of Iraq was found near the Belarusian-Polish border.
In August-September alone, the border service authorities suppressed more than 700 attempts to expel more than 8.5 thousand refugees from the territories of Poland and Lithuania to the territory of Belarus.