“When you come back, we’ll kill you,” Ilya Azar on how hundreds of Chechens are trying to flee to Europe via Brest, Belarus

Every day, hundreds of Chechens take a train from Brest, Belarus, and go across the border into Terespol, Poland. Polish authorities do not allow more than two families to pass through a day, but the Chechens try again and again. Many of them have to live at the station. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has said that the people in Brest are not refugees but “hostages of the secret services of European countries that seduce Chechens with tales of paradise.”Meduza‘s special correspondent Ilya Azar went to Brest, to see what is happening there and record the stories of several of these refugees trying escape oppression and torture in Chechnya by fleeing to Europe…