We are saddened to inform the following news about Namir al-Azzawin, who has been on a hunger strike for three days. Writes Zimema Mhone: “I just got word that Namir fainted and was taken to intensive care.” Al-Azzawin wrote a letter on Sunday addressed to the people of Finland: Dear People of Finland, I started my…
Month: June 2016
Zimema Mhone: Iraqi asylum seeker hunger strike day 2
When I woke up this morning, I did not know that I would be spending the afternoon with one of the most courageous people I have ever met in person. I went down to see Namir al-Azzawin, an Iraqi asylum seeker, after reading about his hunger strike last night on Migrant Tales.
Ana María Gutiérrez Soranen: Vauvan äitiä ja kolmevuotiasta Sämää ei saa käännyttää Suomesta
Tänään moni suomalainen on järkyttynyt Riihimäellä asuva Huner Ali Muhammedin ja Gashaw Khaleel Hamadin perheen saamasta kohtelusta.
Irakilaisen syömälakko päivä yksi: “Irak ei ollut silloin eikä tänäänkään turvallista”
Hyvät suomalaiset, Aloitin syömälakko sunnuntaina protestina Maahanmuuttoviraston epäreilu päätös, joka nyt katso maita kuten Irak, Afganistan ja Somalia ovat turvallisia ja voi palauttaa turvapaikkahakijat kyseisin maahiin. Monet irakilaisia olivat pettyneet tästä päätöksestä. Pakenimme sieltä koska se ei ollut silloin eikä tänäänkään turvallista. En lopeta syömälakkoa ennen kun Maahanmuuttoviranomaiset ovat muuttaneet päätöstään. Namir al-Azzawi Katso alkuperänen…
Iraqi asylum seeker hunger strike day 1: “Iraq wasn’t and still isn’t safe”
Dear People of Finland, I started my hunger strike on Sunday in protest of the unfair decision by the Immigration Authorities (Migri), which claim that countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia are safe to return asylum seekers. Many of us Iraqis were disappointed by the decision taking into account that we fled that country because…
Abdirahim “Husu” Hussein resigns from the Center Party of Finland because “he no longer believes in the party’s policies”
Abdirahim Husu Hussein surprised everyone this week when he announced his resignation from the Center Party. In his words, he resigned from the party he joined 13 years ago because “he no longer believes in the party’s policies,” according to Suomenmaa.
Kolari reception center asylum seeker: Matters have improved because the new manager is very supportive
After a very difficult month, matters are looking up for the asylum seekers of the Kolari reception center, located 214 kilometers north of the city of Kemi. “Matters have really improved for us and the new manager wants to help us,” an asylum seeker told Migrant Tales by phone. “He’s very supportive.”
Vigilante extremist groups in Finland are on the way out but they are a sad mirror of who we are
The life-and-death story of anti-immigration vigilante groups like the Soldiers of Odin or political parties like the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* is simple: create imagined threats to our society, like migrants and asylum seekers, and then set out to “protect” others from the presumed hazard.
Two pictures and a video of Wednesday’s peaceful demonstration in Helsinki by Iraqi asylum seekers
Below are two pictures and a video of today’s peaceful demonstration in Helsinki by Iraqi asylum seekers protesting a new a new Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) assessment that alleges that countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia are today safe for asylum seekers to return.
Helsinki and Kemi demonstrations by Iraqi asylum seekers considered “successful” by their organizers
Two peaceful demonstrations by Iraqi asylum seekers took place Wednesday in Helsinki and Kemi to protest a Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) assessment that countries like Iraq are safe for asylum seekers, according to the organizers.