Meet the Middle Eastern migrants trapped in Lithuania
20 August 2021 |
12:37 pm
Lured to Belarus with promises of easy EU immigration, Iraqis, Syrians and Afghans are now trapped in Lithuania. Abbas al-Khashali and Hamza al-Shawabkeh met them there.
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