{"id":7478,"date":"2021-09-30T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2021-09-30T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T21:04:47","slug":"death-and-abuse-of-refugees-at-the-polish-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/2021\/09\/30\/death-and-abuse-of-refugees-at-the-polish-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski<\/strong>, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint for six weeks now at the Polish border with neither clean water nor access to a doctor. Moreover, Poland’s far-right government has introduced a state of emergency at the border in order to eradicate any chance of contact between the refugees and civil society. This stalemate is now killing those that have been marooned: to date, 6 people have died. Despite government prohibition, a spontaneously organized and clandestine network of activists try to provide fundamental help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Tomek’s most recent piece<\/a> about the situation on Democracy Seminar. <\/em>Also, his article in print, “Shocking Refugee Abuse in Poland” in The Morning Star, <\/em>below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50909,18694],"tags":[61890,29952,882,31809],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fieldnotes","category-events-news","tag-belarus","tag-border","tag-poland","tag-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}