The reception center of Mänttä-Vilpula is closing at the end of 2020. All asylum seekers at the reception center were told that they will be relocating/ transferring to reception centers in other cities. Some of the asylum seekers are currently studying at Mänttä school and are permitted to stay and continue their studies in the
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Afghan asylum seeker: Begging for food from other asylum seekers
Based on the Finnish Immigration Service webpage (Living in a reception center), there are different kinds of reception centers in Finland. The first type offers meals and in the second type, the asylum seekers cook their own meals.
Read on »Asylum seekers are mismanaged and at the mercy of the Finnish Immigration Service
The mismanagement of asylum seekers by reception centers is a non-stop affair in Finland. The latest matter affecting asylum seekers by the Finnish immigration Service is transferring them from one reception to another one.
Read on »Afghan asylum seeker in Joutseno: “Good morning to [you] too”
Since September, an Afghan family comprising of three adults, two minors and their parents left Finland for Germany for fear that they would be deported to Afghanistan. One of the asylum seekers, who is a young man, was deported from Germany to Finland. Today he was taken to the Joutseno Immigration Removal Center from Metsälä in Helsinki.
Read on »Asylum seeker in Joutseno immigration removal center cell 222: Deportation halted!
The deportation of Mohammed, the twenty-one-year-old Afghan asylum seeker detained on December 10 and sent to the Joutseno immigration removal center, was halted today, according to Stop Deportations. Thanks to an appeal, the voluntary association against deportations and Mohammed’s lawyer were able to stop the deportation until his case is reviewed by the supreme administrative court.
Read on »Asylum seeker in Joutseno immigration removal center cell 222: Returning to year zero in Afghanistan
Mohammed*, 21, who was detained at Mikkeli’s Suonsaari asylum reception a week ago on Monday (10.12), will probably face deportation on Wednesday and flown with a one-way ticket back to Afghanistan. Mohammed, who lived a part of his life in Iran, admits that he is penniless. The young man came to Finland like so many
Read on »Fayaz’s statements from his cell in Metsälä Reception Center for migrants
A week after Fayaz has stopped his 10-day hunger strike by the insistence of nurse and caseworkers, he has published a video from his cell in the Metsälä reception center for migrants. In the video (Published by Fayaz and Ahmad Hosseini a local activist) he is giving an update about his situation, his case, the unbelievable stress, uncertainty about his
Read on »Day 9 of Fayaz’s hunger strike: Coping with intense physical and psychological stress
Migrant Tales will begin to publish stories about Fayaz’s hunger strike. Fayaz is an Afghan asylum seeker who faced deportation from Finland and is currently detained at Helsinki’s Metsälä immigration removal center.
Read on »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
Read on »The story of two asylum seekers in Finland: Arezo’s and Saboora’s three drawings
Two women, a young mother of two children, and of a teenage girl who traveled with her family to Finland in 2015. Both have something in common even if they are from different countries: Both are refugees who still don’t know if they will get asylum in Finland. Two years have gone by since their long
Read on »UPDATE: How Migri and Finland play down the plight and suffering of asylum seekers
I heard on Wednesday that a young Afghan resident who came as an asylum seeker to Finland committed suicide this week. A fellow Afghan who knew him said: “What happened is very sad. He wasn’t very social and liked to be by himself.”
Read on »Zaki Husseini returns to Finland after being deported and staying 47 days in Kabul, Afghanistan
Zaki Husseini, 19, became the first asylum seeker that came in 2015 to return to Finland after being deported. He got in touch with Migrant Tales a day after he was deported to Kabul. Thanks to Hussain Kazemian, we were able to get a glimpse of his ordeal and bad luck. A day after he was forced to return to Afghanistan on July 4 with 11 other asylum seekers, the supreme district court ruled against his deportation.
Read on »زکی و باران در روز سه شنبه به کابل دیپورت شدند. آنها هنوز در شوک این اتفاق هستند.
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.
Read on »#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.
Read on »The Finnish police tells three Afghan asylum seekers “we’ll deport you anyway!”
Three Afghan asylum seekers had an appointment with the police Sunday and were detained. Two of them got the second negative decision earlier.
Read on »Change the name of the Finnish Immigration Service to the Finnish Immigration “Disservice”
The collective outrage that we saw on Monday when an Afghan family was deported from Finland to their country reveals why the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) is not “a service” but more of a disservice to too many migrants and asylum seekers.
Read on »تصاعد العنف العنصري ضد متظاهري حقي في الحياه هو جريمه كراهيه واشاره الى تصاعد الجرائم
: صور من المكان الذي وقع فيه الهجوم المتعمد. المصدر: فيسبوك.
Read on »لا استئناف لقرار الرفض لانك ستحصل على قرار سلبي في كل الاحوال
هذا ما قاله مسؤول في الشرطة لعائله ارادت الاستئناف . ما يمكن ان يكون تأثير تعليق كهذا من قبل احد رجال الشرطه على عائله من طالبي اللجوء بهدف عرقله اجراءات الاستئناف ؟ حكايات المهاجرين علمت ان عائله عراقيه مولفه من زوج وزوجه وطفل بالاضافه لوالده الزوج قد توجهت لاستلام الرفض الاول فقال لهم الشرطي :
Read on »The manager of the Keuruu asylum reception center prohibits religious and cultural celebrations – is this the Finnish way of welcoming newcomers?
Migrant Tales continues to interview sources who know about the Keuruu asylum reception center, where the Afghan asylum seekers claim to be treated in a disrespectful manner. One of the many gripes that some asylum seekers have against the reception center manager, Rasul Azizan, is that he imposes the rules like “a dictator,” is that no religious or cultural celebrations can be held at the center.
Read on »Is there a breakdown of trust between the manager of the Keuruu reception center and asylum seekers?
Keuruu is a small town located about 61km west of the central Finnish city of Jyväskylä that has an asylum reception center that houses about 400 people. From the stories that Migrant Tales has heard from inside the Keuruu reception center, it appears that there is a breakdown of trust between the manager, Rasul Azizan, and some asylum seekers.
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