On 20 August, 2018 i.e. 6 days after Lyudmyla Kozlovska was detained and expelled from the European Union, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights expressed its opinion on the matter by publishing the following statement on its website: “In view of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, relevant provisions of the Polish law governing the detention and removal of Lyumyla Kozlovska are incompatible with the EU law and standards set forth by the Council of Europe”.
Let us remind that on 14 August, 2018, ODF President was detained at the airport in Brussels, and subsequently deported to Kyiv, as a consequence of the entry of an alert on her person into the second-generation Schengen Information System ІІ (SIS ІІ) which was intended to refuse her entry or stay in the territory of the European Union. Her name was entered into the SIS based on an opinion issued by the Internal Security Agency.
According to the HFHR, neither detention, nor deportation of Lyudmyla Kozlovska should have taken place. “The HFHR monitors problems related to the use of SIS II. The provisions of the Foreigners Act stipulate when a foreigner’s data is entered and stored in the national register of undesirable foreigners and when such data is transferred to SIS II.An alert in the national list of undesirable foreigners is a technical measure and does not take the form of an administrative decision. Moreover, an alert is not always preceded by an administrative decision, which means that there is no possibility to appeal against the alert by lodging a complaint with an administrative court.
In the HFHR’s view, the relevant provisions of national law are incompatible with EU law. In fact, it follows from the examination of SIS II Regulation that the issuance of an alert on a national list resulting in an SIS II alert should always be based on a separate decision and not only on a technical measure, as the EU Regulation does not provide for such a possibility” – this quotation may be viewed at the Foundation’s website.
Full statement can be read here
Source: hfhr.pl
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See also:
- Poland uses SIS to prevent President of the Open Dialog Foundation from entering the Schengen area
- Information on the inclusion of Lyudmyla Kozlovska in the SIS database by Poland
Other support voices:
- Ombudsman intervenes on the issue of expulsion of Lyudmyla Kozlovska
- Wielowieyski and Święcicki defend the Open Dialog Foundation. Polemic with Pełczyńska-Nałęcz
- Andrzej Wielowieyski for Rzeczpospolita: The strike against the Open Dialog Foundation is Russia’s success
- Marcin Święcicki, Member of the Polish Sejm, issued a parliamentary question concerning the removal of Lyudmyla Kozlovska from the territory of the EU to the Polish Prime Minister
- Ukrainian NGOs call for support for Lyudmyla Kozlovska
- Freedom Square: The case of Lyudmyla Kozlovska is a test of our solidarity
- Guy Verhofstadt: The Schengen visa ban on Lyudmyla Kozlovska must be withdrawn
- MEP Rebecca Harms shocked by the expulsion of the ODF President from the EU
- Dr. Evelien Brouwer: Schengen Entry Bans for Political Reasons? The Case of Lyudmyla Kozlovska