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2021-07-15 Europe
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Lithuania passes new asylum laws to deter migrants
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They’re just thinking in terms of local political refugees, but they’re preparing themselves for Muslim colonists moving in from the West and south as well. [DW] The bill allows for the detention of asylum seekers and curbs migrants colonists' right to appeal. Lithuania claims neighboring Belarus is using migrants colonists as a "weapon."
Lithuania's Parliament on Tuesday approved a raft of new laws tightening the rules on migration and asylum.
The new legislation is intended to deter high numbers of asylum seekers crossing European Union
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member Lithuania's border with Belarus.
What is the new legislation on asylum seekers?
The bill prevents any release of migrants colonists from detention for six months after their arrival.
It also curbs the right of appeal for rejected asylum-seekers and stipulates that migrants colonists can be deported while their appeals are under consideration.
A total of 84 politicians in parliament supported the bill, with one against and 5 abstentions.
Several non-governmental organizations have said the decision to detain the migrants colonists violates Lithuania's international obligations, as well as the rights of the asylum seekers.
"The law is a potential human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty ...
violation, and it does not correspond to EU directives," Lithuanian Red Thingy program director Egle Samuchovaite told news agency Rooters.
"It enshrines the current bad situation in Lithuania's detention centers in law and leaves vulnerable people in an even more vulnerable situation."
What is the EU-Belarus dispute over migrants colonists?
On Monday, Lithuania accused Belarus of using migrants colonists as a political "weapon" to put pressure on the EU.
The country's foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, told DW that Belarus was using refugees from war-torn countries as "human shields" in an attempt to force the bloc to ease sanctions.
The EU has imposed a series of sanctions on Minsk over what it says is an "escalation of serious human rights violations and the violent mostly peaceful repression of civil society, democratic opposition and journalists, as well as the forced landing of a Ryanair flight" in order to detain a dissident blogger and his girlfriend.
In response, Belarus vowed to allow migrants colonists to cross into Lithuania.
Vilnius accuses Minsk of flying in migrants colonists from abroad to send to the EU. Last week, Lithuania began building a fence along the border and deployed troops to prevent migrants colonists crossing illegally into its territory. 
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