Concerns grow over Poland’s treatment of migrants stuck at Belarus border

Warsaw defies critics to extend state of emergency as it seeks to portray migrants as dangerous

Concerns over Poland's treatment of migrants stranded on its border with Belarus are mounting after Warsaw this week ignored domestic and international criticism to extend a state of emergency and sought to portray them as dangerous deviants.

The European commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, met the Polish interior minister, Mariusz Kamiski, in Warsaw on Thursday night but won no concessions on the bloc's request for monitors from the EU's Frontex border force to be allowed into the zone, despite growing fears for the migrants' safety after the deaths of at least five people.