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Rally held in Warsaw for Ukraine activist banned from Europe

Rally held in Warsaw for Ukraine activist banned from Europe | iNFOnews.ca
People rally in support of Lyudmyla Kozlovska, a Ukrainian activist who was banned last week from the entire Schengen zone due to a Polish request, in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday Aug. 23, 2018. The protesters demanded that Kozlovska be removed from the Schengen Information System, the database that Poland put her in. Poland's Internal Security Agency said its counterintelligence department had "serious doubts" about the financing of a foundation Kozlovska runs and members of the ruling party have accused her of working for Russian interests. Kozlovska denies that and says she is a victim of a massive disinformation campaign. The posters read in Polish "no to political deportation". (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

WARSAW, Poland – Dozens of people have rallied in front of the Interior Ministry in Warsaw to protest the deportation and ban of a Ukrainian activist from the Europe’s 26-nation Schengen area on a Polish request.

Lyudmyla Kozlovska, 33, who has a lived in Poland for 10 years and has a Polish husband, was detained at Brussel’s airport Aug. 13 and returned to Ukraine.

A Polish counterintelligence unit said it had “serious doubts” about the financing of a foundation Kozlovska runs and members of the ruling party have accused her of working for Russian interests. Kozlovska says she believes her ban is political punishment for the anti-government activism of her and her husband.

People at the protest Thursday held up signs with Kozlovska’s image and the words: “no to political deportations.”

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