I got a call Friday from a Migrant Tales longtime reader who came to Finland as a child and is in his mid-30s today. “Could you tell me what this message (by the Finnish Immigration Service or Migri) means?” he asked. “If they send me back to I won’t know what to do. I’ll kill myself.”
Tag: deportations
Facebook Nuor Dawood: Leaving to a country that doesn’t deport children, pregnant women and asylum seekers
Migrant Tales insight: Nuor Dawood states perfectly in the Facebook posting below what too many asylum seekers feel in Finland. History will not forget Finland or the European Union for its total lack of empathy. In many respects, it’s the same attitude and indifference that permitted the Holocaust to happen in the 1940s. Just put them…
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Zaki and Baran are still in a state of shock after they were deported to Afghanistan on Tuesday
Migrant Tales got an unexpected friend request on Facebook late Tuesday evening. It was Zaki, one of the Afghan asylum seekers who was deported to Kabul on Tuesday with eleven other people.
#RightToLife demonstration holds inconclusive talks Monday with Helsinki city officials and the police
Nour, one of the organizers of the #RightToLife Helsinki Railway Square demonstration that was closed after 140 days by the police on Friday, is hopeful that a new location will be found soon.
Iraqi asylum seeker: A near-deportation ordeal with the Finnish police
A twenty-two-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who was detained illegally by the police three days before he had to vacate the asylum reception center in Pori is now a free man again. Thanks to the efforts of the Lex Gaudius law firm, the district court overruled the detention of the asylum seeker at the Metsälä immigrant removal center in Helsinki, where he was held from April 27 to May 9.
Finland to deport an illiterate, 70-year-old asylum seeker to Iraq
Migrant Tales has learned that a 70-year-old Kurdish woman will get deported from Finland within 30 days. The woman, who is illiterate and came to Finland in 2015, got three rejections for asylum.
Päivi Nerg is “really offended” by the Evangelical Church of Finland’s stance and activism against deportations
Permanent secretary of the interior ministry, Päivi Nerg, was quoted as saying in Verkkouutiset that she is “really offended” at the Evangelical Church of Finland for mixing and questioning the the country’s harsh asylum policy.
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The fate of the Iraqi family of nine who may end up deported still hangs in the balance
The family of nine from Iraq, who are detained at the Joutseno immigration removal center in southeast Finland, sent a letter to Prime Minister Sipilä. It is beyond any person with a minimum sense of justice how children, between the ages of 1.5 and 14, can be detained like common criminals.