Migrant Tales has received an email from YLE regional and radio current affairs director, Teijo Valtanen, ensuring that the broadcaster will make sure that the blog entries of MPs published Fridays are clearly separated from news. If we look at the opinion piece by Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP Olli Immonen, which was published on Friday, the
Read on »Posts Tagged: Freedom of speech
Finland, the PS and far right: How long before the chickens come home to roost?
I’ve lived and worked in countries like Colombia and Argentina during the dirty war (1976-83), where people were and still are killed for what they write. Never would I have imagined that I’d receive my first death threats twenty years ago in this country, Finland. The threats and harassment haven’t stopped. When I read
Read on »Hijacking my picture and defaming me and Migrant Tales on the Internet (Part 2)
Since Wednesday Migrant Tales and I personally have been harassed by persons from a website called Ylilauta that made it a point to defame and insult me publicly. When I got in touch with the administrator, Tuomas Siitonen, and told him that I was being attacked again, he pleaded the First Amendment (freedom of speech).
Read on »Suomenmaa: Lapsellista sensuurihenkeä
Kansanedustaja James Hirvisaaren (ps.) puoliso Merja Hirvisaari on kannellut Julkisen Sanan neuvostoon median suhtautumisesta perussuomalaisiin. Hirvisaaren mielestä tiedotusvälineet yrittivät vaalien alla muokata kansalaisten mielipiteitä perussuomalaisia vastaan. Erityisen törkeänä esimerkkinä hän pitää persu-sanaa, jota hänen mukaansa käytettiin ”halventavana, pilkkaavana ja valheellisena mitätöinnin työkaluna”
Read on »The PS’ dangerous advice to the Finnish media
It was pretty surprising to read about Perussuomalaiset MPs like Jussi Halla-aho and James Hirvisaari offering the Finnish media lessons on how they should do their job. Whenever governments and politicians start to blame the media for their shortcomings we know there is something wrong.
Read on »Those who give freedom of expression a bad name in Finland
One of the most incredible claims by anti-immigration groups like the True Finns is that they are not allowed to criticize immigrants in general and Muslims in particular. They argue that all they are doing is exercising their freedom of expression.
Read on »YLE: Rasismi- ja viharikosten rangaistuspykäliin tiukennuksia
Hallitus esittää rasismi- ja viharikosten määrittelyä netissä tarkennettavaksi. Hallitus haluaa tiukentaa pykäliä muun muassa siksi, että niitä voitaisiin soveltaa rasististen rikosten lisäksi paremmin myös muihin viharikoksiin.
Read on »Freedom of expression and religion
What does freedom of expression mean? For me it represents a Montesquieuian framework of society where all the parts watch over the other. These checks and balances are crucial to ensure that basic civil liberties enshrined in documents such as the UN Declaration of Human Rights are vigorously defended and encouraged.
Read on »Finland also locks up asylum seeker children
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- A child in the Joutseno Immigration Removal Center.
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