They’re just thinking in terms of local political refugees, but they’re preparing themselves for Muslim colonists moving in from the West and south as well.
[DW] The bill allows for the detention of asylum seekers and curbs Lithuania's Parliament on Tuesday approved a raft of new laws tightening the rules on migration and asylum.
The new legislation is intended to deter high numbers of asylum seekers crossing European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...member Lithuania's border with Belarus.
What is the new legislation on asylum seekers?
The bill prevents any release of
It also curbs the right of appeal for rejected asylum-seekers and stipulates that
A total of 84 politicians in parliament supported the bill, with one against and 5 abstentions.
Several non-governmental organizations have said the decision to detain the
"The law is a potential human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
violation, and it does not correspond to EU directives," Lithuanian Red Thingy program director Egle Samuchovaite told news agency Rooters.
"It enshrines the current bad situation in Lithuania's detention centers in law and leaves vulnerable people in an even more vulnerable situation."
What is the EU-Belarus dispute over
On Monday, Lithuania accused Belarus of using
The country's foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, told DW that Belarus was using refugees from war-torn countries as "human shields" in an attempt to force the bloc to ease sanctions.
The EU has imposed a series of sanctions on Minsk over what it says is an "escalation of serious human rights violations and the
In response, Belarus vowed to allow
Vilnius accuses Minsk of flying in