CRIMINALISATION OF SOLIDARITY
Polish doctor criminalised for helping patient with asylum application
Doctor Paulina Bownik is facing trial after trying to help a patient initiate his asylum application at a hospital in Bialystok, Poland, where he had been brought for care after crossing the border from Belarus. The doctor, who has been providing medical assistance to migrants attempting to cross the Polish border in the past months, will face a court hearing for ‘disturbing the peace’. In a recent visit to the Polish-Belarusian border at the end of November, three socialist MEPs have described the situation as dramatic, and that those who try to help migrants are suffering from a ‘campaign of criminalisation of solidarity that knows no comparison’.
CRIMINALISATION OF SOLIDARITY
Polish doctor criminalised for helping patient with asylum application
Doctor Paulina Bownik is facing trial after trying to help a patient initiate his asylum application at a hospital in Bialystok, Poland, where he had been brought for care after crossing the border from Belarus. The doctor, who has been providing medical assistance to migrants attempting to cross the Polish border in the past months, will face a court hearing for ‘disturbing the peace’. In a recent visit to the Polish-Belarusian border at the end of November, three socialist MEPs have described the situation as dramatic, and that those who try to help migrants are suffering from a ‘campaign of criminalisation of solidarity that knows no comparison’.