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EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson in Lithuania. She wants to visit Poland - but has as yet been unable to fix a date (Photo: European Union)

Activists: 'More deaths' expected on Polish-Belarus border

More people stuck in the forest along the Belarus and Poland border are likely to die to exposure, activists have warned.

"We know there will be more deaths," Marta Górczyńska, a Polish human rights lawyer and researcher, told EUobserver on Thursday (23 September). She worked with the Warsaw-based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and is at the border to collect information of migrants pushed back by Polish border police into Belarus.

Górczyńska said some have been lost in the ...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson in Lithuania. She wants to visit Poland - but has as yet been unable to fix a date (Photo: European Union)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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