Poland has denied that a pregnant Eritrean woman gave birth alone at the Poland-Belarus border after activists said soldiers had “pushed her back”.

Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Duszczyk told the BBC the woman came to the Polish border with her newborn and was taken to hospital.

But activists said she had previously tried to enter Poland and had been in the forested border area for a month.

The new Polish government has vowed a “more humanitarian” border policy.

But activists say that Polish border guards are continuing to push back migrants who are attempting to cross the border from Belarus. Poland accuses Belarus of encouraging the flow of migrants as an act of “hybrid warfare”.

Mr Duszczyk said it would be virtually impossible for a woman to live in the forest for a month in very cold temperatures and give birth alone.

He said border guards took her to hospital in Hajnówka, close to the border, when they found her.

However Adam Barwiński from Grupa Granica – an organisation of activists and human rights workers who help people trying to cross the border – told the BBC that the 38-year old woman told the organisation that she had approached Polish soldiers after crossing the border fence but had been denied entry into Poland.

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