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August 20, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Belarusian border guards have reported long queues at the Polish border as standoff continues between the two countries over illegal migration and the persecution of a journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ninety buses en route to Poland were waiting in the line at the Brest-Terespol border checkpoint at 6 p.m. today, the Belarusian State Border Committee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 10 a.m. there were 76 buses. If it took an average of 30 minutes (takes usually up to one hour) for one bus to be cleared, the waiting time would be about 45 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Belarus sentenced journalist Anrej Pa\u010dobut (Pol. Andrzej Poczobut) to prison in February 2023, Poland closed Bobrowniki, one of the two border crossings available to travelers, indefinitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warsaw expects Minsk to meet its demands – end the migration crisis, release the journalist and cooperate in identifying and arresting a suspect in the murder of Mateusz Sitek, a Polish serviceman stabbed at the Belarusian-Polish border, Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Semoniak said earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gazeta Wyborcza<\/em> contributor Pa\u010dobut, also known as an activist of the unregistered Union of Poles in Belarus (UPB), has been in custody since March 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was arrested after masked police officers raided his home in Hrodna on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the same day, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office announced that it had instituted criminal proceedings against UPB leader Andzelika Borys and \u201cother individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said that the criminal case had been opened under Part Three of the Criminal Code\u2019s Article 130, which penalizes incitement to racial, ethnic, religious or other social hatred and \u201cthe rehabilitation of Nazism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe individuals, positioning themselves as members of the above mentioned union, have organized and held a number of illegal mass events with the involvement of under-18-year-olds in the city of Hrodna and in other localities in the [Hrodna] region since 2018 with a view to honoring members of anti-Soviet gangs that were active during and after the [1941-1945] Great Patriotic War, committed robberies, murdered Belarus\u2019 civilians, destroyed property. Their actions were aimed at rehabilitating Nazism and justifying the genocide of the Belarusian people,\u201d the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, prosecutors also accused Pa\u010dobut of calling for sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Pa\u010dobut refused to petition \u0141uka\u0161enka for pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Committee for State Security (KGB) put him on the list of \u201cpersons involved in terrorist activities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of five defendants in the case, Pa\u010dobut is the only one to remain in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also read: Warsaw working its way toward release of Poczobut \u2013 interior minister<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 20, Pozirk. Belarusian border guards have reported long queues at the Polish border as standoff continues between the two countries over illegal migration and the persecution of a journalist. Ninety buses en route to Poland were waiting in the line at the Brest-Terespol border checkpoint at 6 p.m. today, the Belarusian State Border Committee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":101287,"template":"","rubric":[14,13],"class_list":["post-101308","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLong queues at Polish border as standoff continues with Belarus over imprisoned journalist | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 20, Pozirk. 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