We are seeking to speak with any person who has in any way been sent by Russian officials to Finland since August 2023 as an asylum seeker – or anyone who knows such a person. As you know the Petteri Orpo government is seeking to adopt a law to turn such persons away at the…
Tag: Finnish asylum policy
Ali’s journey back to Finland: “How long before I can be by my beloved wife’s side?”
If you had the opportunity ever to know Ali, one of the first things you’d know is his arduous journey from Finland to Iraq and hopefully back. During the roughly three years lived in Finland, the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) to tell him that he isn’t wanted here. This is his situation today: Ali left…
After Metsälä, Joutseno, Oulu will become Finland’s third immigration removal center
Finland’s third immigration removal center will start operating from the summer of 2019 in the northern city of Oulu, according to YLE. Finland has two detention centers located in the Helsinki neighborhood of Metsälä and in the eastern Finnish town of Joutseno. The new immigration removal center house 30 people. The Finnish Immigration Service (Migri)…
Twitter (Hami Bahadori): Free Fayaz from detention! Stop his deportation from Finland!
Migrant Tales insight: Thank you Hamid Bahadori for the heads-up. We are with you and all those who want to stop Fayaz’ deportation and death in Afghanistan. #Stopdeportations #AfghanistanIsNotSafe
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: How the Finnish government ostracizes migrants and asylum seekers
Migrant Tales insight: How the Finnish government labels and ostracizes in general migrants/asylum seekers in Finland and undocumented migrants in particular. Do you need more proof why Finland is a hostile place for migrants and minorities? Finnish posting by Jukka Eräkare: Read the original text here. English translation: “In this context, illegal migrants are defined as…
Finnair flight AY1433 to Berlin and the sad case of a deportee – #boycottfinnair!
A couple traveled to Berlin on a Finnair flight Thursday. The passenger that witnessed a forced deportation on the flight wrote about it on her Facebook wall. Helsinki police chief inspector, Liisa Lintuluoto, denied in MTV3 that anything of the sort had happened on the flight. Writes the woman who saw the asylum seeker on the flight: “On…
Asylum seeker in detention cell 406: “I got my second rejection [for asylum]”
Remember the young twenty-one-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who was detained in Lappeenranta or 32 days from October 27 to November 23? Things aren’t going well for him because he got a second rejection after applying for asylum a second time.
Finnish Interior Minister Paula Risikko vacationing in a war zone
Sira Moksi has made quite a name for herself by drawing cartoons that newspapers wouldn’t publish. In the one below, we see Interior Minister Paula Risikko vacationing in a “safe” country like Iraq or Afghanistan. Where would Interior Minister Permanent Secretary Päivi Nerg vacation? What about the director general of the Finnish Immigration Service, Jaana Vuori? What about Prime Minister Juha Sipilä? President Sauli Niinistö? Finance Minister Petteri Orpo?
Analysis by Ali Asaad Hasan Alzuhairi: What has changed in Iraq since the downfall of Saddam Hussein?
At the moment we are faced in Iraq with terror coming from the militias and are not able to express opinions which are critical of the Iraqi government.