On the EU's eastern border, seeking refuge is harder for some

Seda Yunusova, a Chechen, is pictured in Brest, Belarus October 15, 2018. Picture taken October 15, 2018. REUTERS/Marta Rybicka

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has made it easier for Belarusians fleeing political persecution to enter, but for Seda Yunusova, a Chechen who was refused the opportunity to apply for asylum 16 times in 2016 and 2017, this is little comfort.

"With all this that is going on I am fearful again," Yunusova told Reuters by telephone from the village of Dymna, near the Belarusian border city of Brest, where she has settled with her eight children.