DH was detained on Sunday by the police in Pori and his fiancée, who is eight weeks pregnant, claims that the police set up a trap for her partner.
“We asked the police on the phone if they could read the decision [by the district court],” she said. “They said we had to go to the police station to get the answer. When we went there, they detained DH.”
According to DH’s fiancée, the second rejection for asylum was received so late that there was no time to appeal the decision to the supreme district court.
DH’s fiancée is a graphic artist. This painting by her is called “Waiting for you.”
“The police in Pori treated DH and my family in a very rude and racist manner,” she said. “His rights were breached. He was forced to undress and not allowed to make any phone calls or take visits [while in Pori].”
Ne ihmiset, jotka sanovat, että syrjäytyneillä, pelokkailla ja kaunaisilla ihmisillä on ihan pikkuisen oikeus olla rasisti, eivät ole mitään tolkun ihmisiä, vaan ehkä ihan pikkuisen rasisteja. He käyttävät hyväkseen toisten ihmisten vihaa, pelkoa ja kateutta ja toivovat, että surkimusten tekemät viharikokset ja kadun rasismi toimisivat niin, että väärää kulttuuria harjoittavia ihmisiä ei enää tulisi maahan ja entisetkin lähtisivät. Että kotimaa säilyisi puhtaan valkoisena ja suomalaisena. Että karjalanpiirakoita ei kukaan väheksyisi.
Jotkut heistä ovat ehkä menneet vipuun ja luulevat vilpittömästi, että rikollisuus on lisääntynyt, kun tuli niin paljon komeita, nuoria arabimiehiä maahan. He saattavat ihan oikeasti olla itsekin vähän pelokkaita ja kateellisia. Mutta heilläkään, vaikka he osaavat esiintyä ja kirjoittaa, ei ole oikeutta ryhtyä syrjimään ja vihaamaan itseään kurjempia. Ei, vaikka he olisivat päässeet toimittajiksi, poliitikoiksi ja presidenteiksi.
Monet rasistisen politiikan tukijat ovat nyt tarttunut siihen hienoon juttuun, että presidenttimmekin on tolkun ihminen. Hän jopa asettui tukemaan blogikirjoittajaa, joka piti Teemu Selänteen yllättäviä rasistisia purkauksia ja epämääräisten raiskaustietojen levittämistä tolkun ihmisen tekoina. Koskaan ei Selännettä – eikä presidenttiä – kunnolla otettu kiinni tästä jutusta. Kuinka paljon siinä oli ns. vaihtoehtoista faktaa? Miksi lastenklinikoiden kummi käyttää omaa kuuluisuuttaan hyväksi lisätäkseen maahanmuuttajanuoriin kohdistuvaa vihaa?
Kanadaan turvaan päässeitä syyrialaisia lapsia. Kuva: Unicef
”Tolkun ihmisille” maahanmuuttajat ovat tolkullisia vain silloin, jos he jotenkin nousevat esille massasta, kurjuudesta kuuluisuuteen, eli itse asiassa pärjäävät huomattavasti meikäläisiä paremmin. Presidentti Niinistökin on nostanut esiin joitakin maahanmuuttajia, ehkä kaksi. Toinen heistä oli Makwan Amirkhani, joka vihreälle oksalle päästyään unohti oman lähtökohtansa ja omat vaikeutensa ja hyppäsi tolkun ihmisten kelkkaan. Sieltä hän nyt potkii vähän heikommin pärjänneitä maahanmuuttajanuoria ja kerjää ja saa itselleen kantasuomalaisten ja etenkin äärioikeistolaisten rasistiryhmittymien suosiota.
Migrant Tales has learned of a new case of an Iraqi asylum seeker, DH, who was detained Sunday in Pori and is now awaiting deportation to Iraq* at the Metsälä detention center. It is the sixth detention that comes to our attention since January 6.
*An earlier story incorrectly stated that DH was awaiting deportation to Turkey, his former home and where some of his relatives live. DH faces deportation to Iraq.
He lives in Pori with a Finnish woman who is eight-weeks pregnant.
According to his partner, the police detained him without any warning at 10 am Sunday, DH was mistreated physically by the police his partner said.
“The judge sided with the police,” she continued, “claiming that it was DH that had tried to take his passport from the police’s hand.”
We will report on this newest case of another Iraqi asylum seeker who faces deportation to Iraq in two weeks.
DH is the latest Iraqi to be detained by the police. He awaits deportation to Turkey.
UPDATED (7:35 am): Iraqi asylum seeker MS’ deportation from Oulu Airport in Finland to Iraq was postponed Tuesday because he wasn’t permitted to board the plane by the pilot in command due to his disorderly behavior.
A reader sent us the following information about what social media sites wrote about what happened Tuesday. Here is an edited version of the message to Migrant Tales:
MS wasn’t allowed to board the flight. He shouted and struggled [with the police] and was refused entry on the plane by the captain. His hands and legs were tied and placed him on the ground with his stomach pressed on the ground. They [police] took him back to a cell in Oulu and he was then transferred to the Metsälä detention center in Helsinki. He is now in Metsälä. This person is really brave and I hope he’ll be freed soon. It’s so sad to see how they treat him like a criminal.
We wrote earlier Tuesday:
Migrant Tales has access to a video published in the Facebook group called Suomi ja Pakolaiset where MS is awaiting deportation inside a police van at Oulu Airport in northern Finland. MS was detained by the police on Friday.
MS states in a video at the airport that some Iraqis have wrongly accused him of committing a crime. Whenever an Iraqi is going to be deported, its customary that some Iraqis wrongly believe that the person is being deported because he committed a crime.
In this case, MS has not committed any crime, according to him.
He said that while he was speaking inside the police van at the airport, there was a camera recording him and spraying some substance [possibly a sedative] to calm him down. “And it smells bad,” he added. MS asks why he’s being deported even if there is no deportation order. “Let’s see what will happen,” he said. “I’ll be in Baghdad soon.”
From a video that was taken by MS today inside a police van at Oulu Airport.
MS inside the police van talking about his last moments before being deported to Iraq.
Migrant Tales has learned but cannot confirm that the Finnish police service is “misleading” asylum seekers to return to Iraq voluntarily.
“When an asylum seeker gets his second rejection he must go to the police to get the answer [from the district court],” said a source. “What they do now, after giving the decision, is to ask the asylum seeker to sign a document. The police don’t explain to the person what the document says [even if it states that the person agrees to return to Iraq voluntarily].”
The source added that some asylum seekers may sign the document as proof that they have received the decision from the district court while others have such a limited education background to understand fully what they are signing.
“This is really underhanded what the police is doing,” the source added.
We don’t mean to scare you with this tweet below. But it’s interesting to note how the Donald Trump’s rise to the US presidency is bringing out the absolute worst in Europe.
While 2016 was a year that ushered in a new era of uncertainty thanks to Brexit and Trump, we must not despair and permit the flagrant opportunism of far-right politicians to dictate what Europe is.
The Guardian published a story Saturday where the region’s far-right leaders saw 2017 as the year when Europe “wakes up.”
One could fairly ask wake up to what? More discrimination? More attacks against our culturally and ethnically diverse roots as Europeans? More white privilege? More police surveillance and abuse?
From left to right some pretty scary far-right European politicians from left to right: Harald Vilimsky of the Austrian FPÖ, Matteo Salvini of the Italian Lega Nord, Gert Wilders of the PVV of Holland, Marine Le Pen of Front Nationale, and Germany’s Frauke Petry of AfD.
Folks, these politicians don’t have a clue about how to make Europe function as a region that respects and makes diversity work. They will fail and fall flat on their faces if they get power.
PM Theresa May has now set out her vision for a UK outside the EU. UKREN Coordinator Alan Anstead takes a look at what this could mean to real families where one partner is from an EU country and the other a Brit. Along the way he shares his personal story as someone in just this situation.
From reading Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech about the UK’s departure from the EU, it is quite clear that her government’s highest priority is to limit immigration. It would appear this is categorized above all other negotiable issues. What state the UK economy would be left in after Brexit appears to matter little so long as those horrible foreigners could be kept out or kicked out. Is this about protecting British people’s livelihoods? I think not.
Skype families
Monique Hawkins is a Dutch passport holder who is married to a British man and has two children, who are British citizens, and has lived in the UK for 24 years. To get some kind of guarantee in the midst of much uncertainty over the residence rights of UK-based EU nationals she applied for permanent residence status. This was rejected and she received a letter from the Home Office telling her to make arrangements to leave the UK.
The government already has a track record of breaking up families. Non-EU spouses who wish to live in the UK to join their British husband or wife have to prove that the British person earns at least £18,600 (more if you have dependent children), which is some £5000 above the minimum wage. This has created ‘Skype families’, families separated because of immigration controls whose contact is via the internet.
