Migrant Tales insight: Finland locks up all kinds of people in immigration removal centers in Helsinki’s Metsäaä and Joutseno like women, men, children and whole families, even asylum seekers who have married Finns.
Tag: deportation
Twitter: UNICEF criticizes Finland over the detention of asylum-seeker children
UNICEF rebukes Finland over its treatment of asylum-seeking minors, according to YLE News. Human rights activists like Zuzeeko Tegha Abeng have lobbied Finland to stop detaining children in 2013. He wrote: “According to Amnesty International, children should be in day care centres, schools or skateparks – not in police detention. Finland detains thousands of people…
Speaking to two asylum seekers detained at the Joutseno immigration removal center
A twenty-four-year-old asylum seeker, which Finland has tried to deport twice and failed, has been locked up for about two months at the Joutseno immigration removal center. The question is for how long can the authorities keep a man locked up for simply refusing to be deported?
UPDATE: Three suicide attempts allegedly took place within a month at the Joutseno immigration removal center
The Joutseno immigration removal center must be a horrible place to end up in. Migrant Tales has heard that there have been at least three suicide attempts, two allegedly “successful” with one person hospitalized.
Asylum seeker in detention cell 208: “I’ll be released again – I hope I’ll never have to see this place again”
A supreme administrative court order today stopped Monday’s deportation of an Iraqi asylum seeker in detention cell 208 (detained last year in cell 406). It was in November when the twenty-one-year-old asylum seeker, after being held for 32 days, was released under the same circumstances. At 4:30 pm sharp a guard at the Joutseno* immigration…
Migrant Tales Literary: Dedicated to asylum seeker in cell 406*
By Dana I have some questions for both the Finnish people and foreigners who live in Finland. What do you think about laws that work against humanity? About laws that send you to your execution? Those laws are policies that take the person and kill him /her with a gun or with a rope. What…
Asylum seeker in detention cell 406: “I’ll either be sent to Lappeenranta or Joutseno”
We heard the sad news about the twenty-one-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who was detained by the police Tuesday in Mikkeli, Finland.
“Asylum seeker in detention cell 406” was detained again by the police and faces deportation to Iraq
“Asylum seeker in detention cell 406,” who was detained in Lappeenranta for 32 days last year was detained by the police Tuesday morning at around 10 am at the Suonsaari asylum reception center, located about 10km from the city of Mikkeli. Migrant Tales understands that the administrative court rejected his appeal for asylum.
Another young Iraqi asylum seeker faces deportation from Finland
Another hapless asylum seeker, 24, was about to be deported a day after he was detained by the police on January 2. The deportation failed after he started to yell at the top of his voice prompting three civilian policemen to remove him off the plane.
Iraqi asylum seeker detained in Tampere by the police on Friday was released today
The nineteen-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq, who was detained by the police on Friday awaiting possible deportation was released today at about 1 pm, according to his representative.