Civil liberties committee: access to asylum in Lithuania and Latvia

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that national law in #Lithuania denies people the fundamental right to #asylum. It doesn’t matter if someone enters regularly or irregularly - they still have a right to seek asylum. Denying it to them breaks EU and international law. #Lithuania also denying asylum to #Belarus dissidents on basis of vague insinuations of “threats to national security,“ such as with peace activist Olga Karatch. Even the European Commission is using the concept of “hybrid threats“ to dehumanise people. Are these #EuropeanValues?
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