End 'double standard approach' on refugees, UN expert urges Poland


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  • Thursday, 28 Jul 2022

FILE PHOTO: Military Police soldiers keep watch as workers from Unibed company work at the construction site of a barrier at the border between Poland and Belarus, in Tolcze near Kuznica, Poland January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo

GENEVA/WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish authorities must stop locking up migrants near the Belarus border and put an end to their "very different" treatment of Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian refugees, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on migrants' rights said on Thursday.

Felipe Gonzalez Morales praised the actions of Polish authorities and citizens who have given protection and assistance to over 2 million Ukrainian refugees and lodged them in their homes since the start of Russia's invasion in February.

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