(Middle East Eye) The director of the UK-based advocacy group Cage has accused the French government of placing him on a European no-entry list after he was refused entry to Poland to attend a high-profile security conference in Warsaw.
Border officers at Warsaw airport on Monday told Muhammad Rabbani that he could not enter the country because his name appeared on the Schengen Information System (SIS).
The SIS is a security database that allows any member of the Schengen area, a group of 26 EU member states within which the free movement of people and goods is permitted, to ban people from entering any country within the bloc.
Paperwork shown to Middle East Eye relating to Rabbani’s entry ban to Poland confirmed that his name was on the SIS list.
