Malid, a good 43-year old gay Iranian man vacationing with 11 anybody else, including an individual woman, described a violent pushback away from Poland in order to Belarus into April 4:
We’d walked inside the freezing cooler and you can snowfall having 7 so you’re able to eight instances when Belarusian shields trapped us and we also was in fact damp, exhausted, and without opportunity. We went throughout the a couple of miles within the Poland before i had arrested. They [Shine edging guards] shed all of our mobile phones and additionally they got my personal bank card… I inquired them to indicate to us regard and since I did, I was knocked, punched, tasered, and you will pepper dispersed… They [Polish border guards] expected you whenever we wanted asylum for the Poland. I advised all of them whenever it i want to sign up for asylum in the Poland I am able to and you can requested to name a lawyer within the Warsaw. We advised all of them I became an enthusiastic Gay and lesbian asylum hunter …