{"id":589208,"date":"2026-10-14T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=589208"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:08:57","slug":"malian-woman-tried-to-leave-belarus-using-her-cousin-s-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/malian-woman-tried-to-leave-belarus-using-her-cousin-s-passport","title":{"rendered":"Malian Woman Tried to Leave Belarus Using Her Cousin\u2019s Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Malian citizen attempted to enter Poland from Belarus using her cousin\u2019s passport because her own passport did not contain a visa, the State Border Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/gpkgovby\/9975\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of October 8, a woman arrived at the Brest border checkpoint and presented a Malian passport for inspection. Border guards found the document suspicious. An examination established that the passport did not belong to her.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was a citizen of Mali. She explained that she wanted to travel to France but did not have a visa. She therefore took her cousin\u2019s passport and attempted to leave for Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The woman has been detained. Administrative proceedings have been initiated over an attempted illegal border crossing. She faces a fine of up to 100 basic units, as well as potential criminal liability for knowingly using a forged document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malian citizen attempted to enter Poland from Belarus using her cousin\u2019s passport because her own passport did not contain a visa, the State Border Committee reports. On the evening of October 8, a woman arrived at the Brest border checkpoint and presented a Malian passport for inspection. Border guards found the document suspicious. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":589209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6acf70dc17b8d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Malian Woman Tried to Leave Belarus Using Her Cousin\u2019s Passport"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589208","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589210,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589208\/revisions\/589210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}