{"id":493261,"date":"2025-10-24T17:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=493261"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:34:18","slug":"warsaw-court-overturns-decision-to-transfer-former-belarusian-political-prisoner-to-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/warsaw-court-overturns-decision-to-transfer-former-belarusian-political-prisoner-to-lithuania","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw Court Overturns Decision To Transfer Former Belarusian Political Prisoner To Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw has overturned the decision to transfer <b>Natallia Padleuskaya<\/b> to Lithuania under the Dublin procedure, the initiative Partyzanka reported. The appeal submitted to the court was prepared by the initiative\u2019s founder, <b>Anna Matieuskaya<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of Partyzanka thanked MEP <b>Ma\u0142gorzata Gosiewska<\/b> for her support and assistance, the law firm <em>Parchimowicz i Kwa\u015bniewski<\/em> for promptly providing a lawyer who represented Padleuskaya in court, and more than 20 Belarusians who came to show their solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative\u2019s representatives said they will continue monitoring the implementation of the court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;This is yet another legal quest to bring Natallia back home \u2014 to her family in Poland,&#8221;<\/i> they said.<\/p>\n<p>On October 22, two days before the hearing, Polish Border Guard officers arrived at Padleuskaya\u2019s residence near Wroc\u0142aw and detained her for transfer to Lithuania under the Dublin Regulation. She was not warned in advance and had no time to collect her belongings.<\/p>\n<p>Padleuskaya, 60, was sentenced in May 2022 to one year in prison for insulting <b>Aleksandr Lukashenka<\/b>. After her release, she left Belarus for Poland on a Lithuanian visa to join her relatives and applied for international protection in September 2024. Her application was twice denied, and authorities had planned to transfer her case to Lithuania under the Dublin Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Padleuskaya appealed the denials and requested that her case be heard in Poland. She also asked the Warsaw court to suspend the enforcement of earlier decisions in her case. The court hearing took place today in Warsaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw has overturned the decision to transfer Natallia Padleuskaya to Lithuania under the Dublin procedure, the initiative Partyzanka reported. The appeal submitted to the court was prepared by the initiative\u2019s founder, Anna Matieuskaya. Representatives of Partyzanka thanked MEP Ma\u0142gorzata Gosiewska for her support and assistance, the law firm Parchimowicz i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68fb8e721b864.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Warsaw Court Overturns Decision To Transfer Former Belarusian Political Prisoner To Lithuania"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}