Event 12

{
  "border_violation_countries": [
    "Latvia",
    "Belarus",
    "BY-LV"
  ],
  "border_violation_modes": [
    "Land"
  ],
  "category": "Border",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Confirmed by official ERR News article. Figures and framing are consistent with open-source reporting on the Latvia-Belarus border situation in 2023.",
  "countries": [
    "Latvia",
    "Belarus"
  ],
  "country": "Latvia",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Latvia has blocked over 11,000 migrants attempting to illegally cross the border from Belarus this year. This action responds to increasing migratory pressure, and is widely interpreted as Belarus employing migrants as a hybrid-warfare tactic against EU neighbors.",
  "event_time_utc": "2023-10-13T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "ERR News headline and summary explicitly state the scope of the attempted crossings and the Latvian response."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "Latvia has blocked over 11,000 attempts to enter the country from Belarus this year."
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://news.err.ee/1609133402/latvia-has-blocked-11-000-migrants-from-crossing-the-belarusian-border"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Migrants",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "ERR News headline and summary explicitly state the scope of the attempted crossings and the Latvian response."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Latvia has blocked 11,000 migrants from crossing the Belarusian border",
  "location_text": "Latvia-Belarus border",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "captured_at": "2025-11-23T15:54:45.141501Z",
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "hash": "c72c6518bde9920ea70767d2c136b27d4be7e779a3625cb78baa4fa1036d7e79",
      "mime": "image/jpeg",
      "origin": "restore",
      "size_bytes": 6310919,
      "source_url": null,
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_12_1763913285_f4710f10.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Migrants",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://news.err.ee/1609133402/latvia-has-blocked-11-000-migrants-from-crossing-the-belarusian-border"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Latvian authorities reported blocking 11,000 migrants from crossing from Belarus in 2023, amid ongoing hybrid-warfare concerns.",
  "url": "https://news.err.ee/1609133402/latvia-has-blocked-11-000-migrants-from-crossing-the-belarusian-border"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "Migrants",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "BY-LV",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "LV",
  "Date": "13-Oct-23",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "Migrants",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "This year: ??Latvia has blocked 11,000 migrants from crossing the Belarusian border",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://news.err.ee/1609133402/latvia-has-blocked-11-000-migrants-from-crossing-the-belarusian-border",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}