{"id":2337,"date":"2016-08-31T13:52:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:55:29","slug":"poland-denied-entry-to-chechens-in-order-to-protect-europe-from-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/2016\/08\/31\/poland-denied-entry-to-chechens-in-order-to-protect-europe-from-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland denied entry to Chechens in order \u201cto protect Europe from terrorism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poland, Warsaw \u2013 This week Poland refused to let cross the EU\u2019s border to 200 Chechens from Belarus. Polish Interior Minister Mariusz B\u0142aszczak said on TV that as long as the conservative Law and Justice party was in power \u201cwe will not expose Poland to the threat of terrorism.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He explained that he denied entry to the Chechens because the border is sealed to protect the nation and Europe against terrorism. \u201cThe point is to ensure security to Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups say torture, abductions and extrajudicial executions have been widespread during the rule of Chechnya\u2019s Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov and the Chechens say they aim to enter the EU through Poland to seek asylum. Most travel on to Germany or other western European countries. Some 6,000 Russian citizens, mostly Chechens, have been admitted to Poland so far this year, a 150 percent increase from the same period last year. During the same time, some 30,000 people have been denied entry, says ABCNews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland, Warsaw \u2013 This week Poland refused to let cross the EU\u2019s border to 200 Chechens from Belarus. Polish Interior Minister Mariusz B\u0142aszczak said on TV that as long as the conservative Law and Justice party was in power \u201cwe will not expose Poland to the threat of terrorism.\u201d He explained that he denied entry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":{"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}