Belarusian detained in Georgia with expired documents arrested for three months

The Belarusian was detained on November 6 in the Tbilisi metro. According to observations by readers of "Pozirk", this year groups of police officers are on duty near the busiest stations and from time to time check documents of people who appear to be foreigners. Patrols have also been given powers to check the legality of foreigners' stay in Georgia.

The detainee's Belarusian passport and Georgian temporary ID card had expired. Georgian human rights activists were present at the court hearing, but the court did not accept the lawyer's arguments and decided to remand the Belarusian. Five days are allotted for appealing this decision. After that, a court hearing on the deportation case should take place.

Raman Kisliak could not attend the session because for the past few months he has been denied entry to court for the fourth time without a valid document. The human rights activist himself has been seeking asylum in Georgia for several years and is currently under the temporary protection of the UN Human Rights Committee, which is considering his complaint about the refusal.

According to Kisliak's information, the detainee is alive and well, he was seen in court and had the opportunity to speak. However, the human rights activist drew attention to the fact that the arrest hearings proceeded very quickly: the judge rushed the participants, and the representative of the Migration Department of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs spoke so quickly that even Georgian human rights activists could not hear everything. In this regard, a complaint was filed that the process was not open in this part.

Now, according to Kisliak, it is necessary to achieve the recognition of deportation as inadmissible. He called the current work of the Georgian judicial system predictable and stated that detentions and arrests for subsequent deportation are essentially put on stream. If the appeal does not help, human rights activists intend to appeal to the UN Committee against Torture or the UN Human Rights Committee. They expect to obtain temporary protective measures and a ban on the deportation of the Belarusian.

According to Kisliak, the detainee is facing politically motivated persecution in his homeland. On this basis, he sought asylum in Georgia but was refused by both the Migration Department and the city and appeal courts.

Since the arrested person does not have valid documents, he can only be deported to Belarus. Whether any third country, such as Armenia, will agree to accept him is currently unknown. Kisliak noted that he had not previously encountered cases where a person facing deportation had to solve such a problem due to expired documents.

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