Fears grow for Afghan refugees stuck in ‘Kafkaesque’ Poland-Belarus standoff
udf.byA woman talks to a Polish border guard near Białystok, north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus, last week. Photograph: Wojtek Radwański/AFP/Getty Images Fears are growing for a group of Afghan refugees who fled their country last month and made their way to Europe, only to find themselves marooned on the border between Poland and Belarus in a “Kafkaesque” political standoff. The 32 refugees – women, men, and a child of 15 years old – have been stuck in a small, muddy patch of land between the two countries for almost three weeks with no access to clean water, insufficient shelter and intermittent food supplies, according to a Polish NGO.