THE STORY WAS UPDATED It is usually the rule rather than the exception that everywhere EU’s Frontex polices with local border guards the border, “European values” are thrown under the bus or underwater in most cases. For this reason, some fear that Finland’s pushback law will be just another example of the corruption, violations, and…
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Anachoma: A documentary on pushbacks will be shown in Mikkeli, Finland on 27 June
I wonder what is going to happen to the shameful pushback law? There are more humane ways to deal with asylum seekers. You don’t have to trash human rights and the rule of law to make your hostile point. Mitenköhän käy häpeällisen rajalain kanssa? On inhimillisempiäkin tapoja käsitellä turvapaikanhakijoita. Ei tarvitse heittää roskiin ihmisoikeuksia ja…
Will refugees at the Finnish-Russian border suffer the same fate as those on Greece’s Evros River and other EU borders?
“…the job of the politician is to guarantee the safety of its own citizens and to guard its borders, and that’s what Finns expect.” Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Laura Huhtasaari, A-studio (3.6.2024) The answer given by PS MP Huhtasaari to justify pushbacks and deaths is a raw example of the inhumanity used during Nazi Germany to…
Anachoma: A documentary on pushbacks on the Turkish-Greek border
The 480-kilometer-long Evros River, which divides Greece and Turkey in an uneasy truce, is just one of many places where EU policy on pushbacks goes largely unchecked. Finland is now planning the same thing on the Finnish-Russian border. The first screening of the documentary will take place in Vienna on May 31. We plan to…
Pushbacks in the EU are disgraceful revealing our willingness to ditch our most sacred values
Thanks to a talk hosted by the European Network on Religion and Belief (ENORB) this week, we were able to witness once again the violent pushbacks occurring on EU borders, Migrant Tales recently published a story about this pushback on the Turkish-Greek Evros River border. The pushbacks, which go largely unnoticed by the European media,…
Anachoma: A documentary on pushbacks and violence on the Greek-Turkish Evros River
When I first went to the [Evros River] border, my first priority was to uncover what was happening and not to get arrested. Philip Pollák, director of the Anachoma documentary project The 480-kilometer-long Evros River, which divides Greece and Turkey in an uneasy truce, is just one of many places where EU policy on pushbacks…
@onlinehyphen: Geert Wilders’ victory points to a surge in anti-Islam populism across Europe
By Shada Islam* Many mainstream politicians have adopted and amplified the language of the far right Dutch far-right and anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders’ success in this week’s elections in the Netherlands has been widely described as a “shock” result. It is nothing of the sort. Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV), whose manifesto calls for bans on mosques…
Movies like Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” are needed more than ever today
Thanks to Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” we can now get a terrific glimpse of the suffering of asylum seekers who were used as political pawns by Belarus and Poland. Since it would have been impossible to film the movie in Belarus or Poland, Holland created a movie with actors to debict these people’s suffering. Writes…
Riikka Purra and the anti-EU PS may be too radical for Finland’s taste
Perussuomalaiset (PS)* chairperson, Riikka Purra, stuck her mouth in her foot at a debate with National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) head Petteri Orpo, when she said that it is still the radical-right party’s long-range aim to leave the EU. “Finnish citizens are not in favor of leaving the EU,” she was quoted as saying in Helsingin…
The inhumane treatment of asylum seekers at the Greek-Turkish border may reveal what may happen at the Russian-Finnish border
Europe is good at hiding its very big dirty secrets. German news magazine Der Spiegel revealed the inhuman treatment of refugees at European borders by publishing a report on Frontex by the European anti-fraud office OLAF. And that’s not all: The Guardian reports that 92 naked refugees were rescued at the Greek-Turkish border. Writes Der…