Hundreds of migrants and refugees are trapped at Belarus’ border with Poland, amid tension between the two countries.
Poland says it has stopped attempts by the large group to enter the country. It has also accused Belarus of pushing migrants to the border.
Warsaw further said it had deployed additional soldiers and border guards in response to the situation along its eastern border.
Social media users largely shared video clips showing people walking towards the frontier trying to breach a barbed-wire border fence.
Poland Accused of Abandoning Migrants at Frontier
Amnesty International has earlier accused Poland of illegally pushing back asylum-seekers into Belarus.
According to the group, Polish authorities pushed back a group of 32 Afghan asylum-seekers in late August.
The group included a 15-year-old girl.
It said that satellite imagery and photographs showed that the group was on the Polish side of the border on August 18.
“Amnesty International believes that this movement may be evidence of an illegal push-back, as it appears to have occurred while armed Polish border guards surrounded the refugees’ makeshift camp,” it said in a statement.
“Poland has been blocking this group of people at the border in deplorable conditions for weeks. Our analysis proves conclusively that their position has changed from Poland to Belarus overnight on 18 August and that they were therefore probably victims of unlawful forcible removal,” Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s Office to the European Institutions, said in a statement.
