AKIPRESS.COM - Activist from Kyrgyzstan Maria Kolesnikova was deported from Poland on her way to a U.N. climate change conference in Katowice, she said.

She was stopped in Warsaw on Dec 8, interrogated and deported to Kyrgyzstan as a "threat to public order", although her documents were alright.

She said 14 other activists from Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan were deported.

Kolesnikova also wrote that other activists who were able to make it to the U.N. climate change conference in Katowice organized a march in support for those who were deported or not allowed in to Poland.

Poland’s deputy environment minister, Michal Kurtyka, said on Saturday he was in contact with the authorities over reports from campaign groups that at least 12 to 14 activists were refused entry to the country or deported while on their way to a U.N. climate change conference in Katowice.

Human rights experts said the reported barring of activists contradicted the spirit of the 2015 Paris Agreement on global warming which entrenches the principle of public participation in action to combat global warming.

Earlier this year, Poland came under international pressure to allow activists to demonstrate freely at the U.N. climate change talks, and to protect participants’ privacy, after new legislation passed in January sparked fears over civil rights, Reuters reports.

That legislation forbids spontaneous protests in Katowice during the talks, and allows police to collect personal data on delegates without their consent, according to Human Rights Watch.