Polish Volunteer Detained for Aiding Migrants
Click to expand Image Polish border guards watch asylum seekers stuck at the Polish-Belarus border in Bialowieza, May 28, 2023. 2023 Sipa via AP Images Polish authorities have hit a new low in their assault on civil society when they arrested and charged a 48-year-old humanitarian aid worker on September 7 for helping migrants and asylum seekers stranded at the Poland-Belarus border as a result of unlawful, and often violent, pushbacks by both countries. Ewa, the humanitarian aid worker, is charged with heading a criminal group organizing illegal border crossings to Poland - a crime that bear...