The picture of the girl in Joutseno’s immigration removal center was taken by a detained Iraqi family in 2017. If there is a picture that represents the injustice of Finland’s heartless immigration “service” authorities, it is this picture of the girl gazing at her future from a barred window with barb wire. You can check
Read on »Posts Tagged: Iraqi asylum seekers
Tampere offers shelter and food to Iraqi family after Red Cross intervenes
Migrant Tales wrote on Monday about an Iraqi family with two children aged 6 and 5 that were evicted from the Kemi asylum reception center and given five days room and board by the city. The family left Kemi and went to Tampere, where the city gave them room and board. The father was desperate
Read on »An Iraqi family in Finland and their brave 13-year-old daughter
Asylum seekers and migrants commonly get in touch with Migrant Tales like a Turkmen Iraqi family below who feared being deported back to their former home country. Their daughter is 13 years old and she speaks at least five languages. Since she is the only one who can speak Finnish, she not only interprets language but the family’s anxiety and fear.
Read on »I am Ali: The waiting
Migrant Tales insight: Katie Bell wrote us an email a while back and asked if she could publish a story about an Iraqi asylum seeker called Ali, who spoke on condition of anonymity. She writes in an email: “After interviewing him for more details and exactly what he wants to tell, I will compose a
Read on »Mohammed’s deportation from Finland to Iraq on May 29
There are many reasons why some consider the Finnish justice and asylum system inhumane towards asylum seekers. Amnesty International has cited factors like restrictions of the right to free legal representation and reduced appeal times in 2016 as factors that have undermined asylum seekers’ situation in Finland.
Read on »Speaking to two asylum seekers detained at the Joutseno immigration removal center
A twenty-four-year-old asylum seeker, which Finland has tried to deport twice and failed, has been locked up for about two months at the Joutseno immigration removal center. The question is for how long can the authorities keep a man locked up for simply refusing to be deported?
Read on »Asylum seeker in detention cell 208: “I’ll be released again – I hope I’ll never have to see this place again”
A supreme administrative court order today stopped Monday’s deportation of an Iraqi asylum seeker in detention cell 208 (detained last year in cell 406). It was in November when the twenty-one-year-old asylum seeker, after being held for 32 days, was released under the same circumstances. At 4:30 pm sharp a guard at the Joutseno* immigration
Read on »Asylum seeker in detention cell 406: “I will be deported on Monday”
The asylum seeker in detention cell 406, who is a twenty-one-year-old Iraqi, said that he’d be deported on Monday, February 26 from Finland. “The same woman police officer who said she was going to fly with me to Iraq in October, said that I would be flown back on Monday,” he said by phone. “The
Read on »Asylum seeker in detention cell 406: “I’ll either be sent to Lappeenranta or Joutseno”
We heard the sad news about the twenty-one-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who was detained by the police Tuesday in Mikkeli, Finland.
Read on »Send an email and words of encouragement to an Iraqi asylum seeker at the Metsälä immigration detention center
Migrant Tales wrote on Thursday about the detention of a twenty-four-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who escaped deportation on January 3 by acting in an unruly manner on a plane. He now awaits deportation to Iraq next week.
Read on »Iraqi asylum seeker detained in Tampere by the police on Friday was released today
The nineteen-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq, who was detained by the police on Friday awaiting possible deportation was released today at about 1 pm, according to his representative.
Read on »Asylum seeker in detention cell 406: “…I’m happy to be free again”
After being detained by the police on October 23 in Mikkeli, the twenty-one-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker in detention cell 406 was released from detention in Joutseno this afternoon at 4:40 pm. All in all, his detention in Mikkeli was from October 23-27 and from October 27-November 23, or a total of 32 days.
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 »Iraqi asylum seeker in Finland foils deportation attempt
Haidar Isam of the #righttolife demonstration said that the deportation of an Iraqi asylum seeker was stopped today shortly before a Turkish Airline flight was set to leave Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.
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 »#SaveLARA is the latest deportation case and call in Finland to resist sending her back to Iraq
#SaveLara is one of the most recent anti-deportation cases that has caught social media attention in Finland. The young 24-year-old Iraqi who came in 2015 from Iraq was supposed to be deported to Iraqi’s capital city Baghdad on Monday. It didn’t happen because she created quite a scene in the plane and the airline captain ordered her off the flight.
Read on »Finland’s immigration and asylum policy is only a momentary Pyrrhic victory
The picture below isn’t from Gaza or some war-torn region but of the playground of the Konnunsuo immigration removal center in Joutseno, Finland, a country that claims to be proud of its social achievements and respect for human rights. The view is the one that a family with seven children had for over a month
Read on »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.
Read on »Finland plans to deport another family with four children aged 1 to 6 years to Iraq
Even if former Finnish President Tarja Halonen (2006-2012) said today that deportations of asylum seekers should be suspended until the authorities have updated their security information of Afghanistan, Iraq and especially Syria, according to YLE News, there are plans to deport yet another Iraqi family with four children to their home country on Friday, April 28.
Read on »عائله عراقيه من كربلاء وصلت الى
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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 »Day 10 of the Helsinki demonstration by Iraqi asylum seekers: “We will demonstrate for as long as necessary”
Here’s a show of respect and admiration for the Iraqi asylum seekers protesting in cold February in Helsinki against the harsh asylum policies of the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri), which is an extension of Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s government.
Read on »The demonstration against deportation and tough asylum policies must continue
Over a hundred people have joined a peaceful demonstration that began a week ago on Friday and which shows no sign of letting up was moved from near the Little Parliament to the Helsinki Railway Square. Despite a far-right group called Suomi Ensin (Finland First), which has tried to insult and ruin the demonstration with their
Read on »A week in an asylum seeker’s life in Finland: legal limbo and deportation
From good news like with the release of Hayder Al-Hatemi on February 1 this week is characterized by extending detention to two deportations.
Read on »Hayder Al-Hatemi is freed from detention and becomes a momentary bright spot in the gloom that asylum seekers face in Finland
Some stories that Migrant Tales has published about asylum seekers in Finland have had tragic endings. On Wednesday, however, there was a bright spot that cut through some of the gloom: Hayder Al-Hatemi, alias “SH,”* was released from detention from Helsinki’s Metsälä immigration removal center.
Read on »Facebook: Don’t let the Finnish government and Migri get you down, says Kerstin Ösgård
Kerstin Ösård Everybody here, my friends in the Iraqi community, feel so down these days about this country’s crazy asylum policy and Migri’s stupidity. I just want all you to know that we are many Finnish people who work very hard to change the situation because we simply cannot accept how our country treats you.
Read on »CORRECTION: Sixth Iraqi asylum seeker detained by police facing deportation to Iraq
Migrant Tales has learned of a new case of an Iraqi asylum seeker, DH, who was detained Sunday in Pori and is now awaiting deportation to iraq at the Metsälä detention center.
Read on »UPDATED (7:32 am): Iraqi asylum seeker MS’ deportation from Oulu Airport in Finland postponed due to diorderly behavior
Migrant Tales has access to a video published in the Facebook group called Suomi ja Pakolaiset where MS is awaiting deportation inside a police van at Oulu Airport in northern Finland. MS was detained by the police on Friday.
Read on »اخبار تشير الى ان الشرطه الفنلنديه تقوم بتضليل اللاجئين للتوقيع على العوده الطوعيه للعراق
من حكايات المهاجرين علمت حكايات المهاجرين بان الشرطه الفنلنديه تقوم بتضليل اللاجئين للتوقيع على اوراق العوده الطوعيه للعراق (لم نتمكن من تأكي الخبر من جهات رسميه ) يقول المصدر انه عندما يحصل اللاجيء على رفضه الثاني يتوجه لدائره الشركه لاستلام الجواب ) من المحكمه المختصه ) , مضيفا ان ما يفعلونه الان بعد اعطاء القرار
Read on »How Finland’s immigration and asylum policy turned from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde
It’s clear that Finland’s immigration policy towards asylum seeker moves from one blunder to the next. Under Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s government immigration policy has been inefficient, expensive and, most importantly, inhumane and against our Nordic values.
Read on »Ambassador Matheel Dhayif Al-Sabti: Iraq will not accept forced deportations from Finland
Migrant Tales had the opportunity to speak to Iraqi Ambassador to Finland, Matheel Dhayif Al-Sabti, on Wednesday about Iraq’s official policy towards deportation of its national: “I’m saying that Iraq will not accept forced deportations.”
Read on »Iraqi asylum seeker KM who was set to be deported on Monday was released today
KM, one of three Iraqi asylum seekers that Finland planned to deport Monday with SH and AM, was released today after the district supreme court decided to review his case.
Read on »What message does Finland want to send to Iraqi asylum seekers by deporting them to a country that it has no repatriation agreement?
The case of two young Iraqis, KM and SH, who were detained by the police on Friday and who will apparently be deported from the country on Monday are a case in point. To KM and SH, there is another Iraqi national, AM, who will be deported together with KM and SH. All three are being held at the Helsinki detention camp of Metsälä.
Read on »Two Iraqi asylum seekers get deportation order from judge and will be flown to Iraq “in two weeks”
A judge in the city of Turku has decided that Iraqi asylum seeker KM will be deported “in two weeks” from Finland. KM told Migrant Tales that he didn’t know about the fate of his friend, SH, who was detained by police on Friday.
Read on »A sick Iraqi asylum seeker asks for mercy in a country that supposed to offer it
As the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) makes life difficult for asylum seekers in Finland with the approval of Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s government, take a look at an Iraqi asylum seeker in the video below from the Pudasjärvi asylum reception center of northern Finland.
Read on »The Iraqi community of Kemi doesn’t feel secure after Friday’s shooting
The shooting of an Iraqi asylum seeker in the northern Finnish city of Kemi has shocked the 400-500-strong Iraqi community in that city, according to an asylum seeker who spoke to Migrant Tales by phone. “The shooting [of what happened Friday] has made us very afraid,” he said. “Everyone [the Iraqi community] speaks about what happened on Friday.”
Read on »Three men assaulted near Mikkeli three Iraqi asylum seekers with an axe and small shovel
Three men in a red GMC SUV attacked three Iraqi asylum seekers from the Suonsaari asylum reception center near Mikkeli on Sunday at 2 – 2:30 am, according to sources close to the case. The men in the SUV attacked the three asylum seekers with an axe and garden shovel as they were biking to the asylum reception center.
Read on »UPDATE: Iraqi asylum seeker files charges against suspect who shot at him
An Iraqi asylum seeker, who was shot at twice by a white Finnish suspect in Kemi neighborhood of Syväkangas, will file charges.
Read on »Police now investigate the death of a young Iraqi asylum seeker in Finland
Migrant Tales reported Monday about the tragic death of a young Iraqi asylum seeker who allegedly took his life after his asylum request was turned down by the Finnish Immigration Service. While it’s been known since Sunday about the death of the asylum seeker, it is surprising how slowly the media and police operate.
Read on »Single mother Iraqi asylum seeker with two children plead for help to not be deported from Finland
Migrant Tales got a phone call Thursday from an Iraqi woman* who spoke a few words of English. “Do you speak German?” she asked.
Read on »Suomen Kuvalehti: The Finnish government’s hardline immigration stance is not the standard in other European countries
Finally, some Finnish media, like Suomen Kuvalehti, is investigating the abuses and lies of the government against Iraqi asylum seekers. As Migrant Tales has pointed out previously, there are many scoops ready to be reported if only the media cared to look closer and write about them.
Read on »Helsingin Sanomat article on the Finnish Immigration Service sheds light on an institution distanced from human rights and Nordic values
It is surprising that whenever a Finnish government tightens immigration policy, it washes its hands by stating that it’s common practice in the EU or Sweden. Is it? If a landmark decision last month by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is anything to go by, the government’s hardline stance on returning asylum seekers to a “safe” country like Iraq is more than questionable.
Read on »The Finnish media doesn’t care to write about asylum seekers when they try to take control of their narrative
Here’s an important question to the Finnish media: Why is it more interested to report on an event organized by far-right anti-immigration groups (see picture below) that are a flop but doesn’t care to report on demonstrations that took place Monday in Helsinki, Jämsä, Jyväskylä, Kemi, Kolari and elsewhere that attract a lot more people? Today’s “A right to live” demonstrations attracted in Helsinki alone up to 500 people.
Read on »Zimema Mhone: Iraqi asylum seeker hunger strike day 2
When I woke up this morning, I did not know that I would be spending the afternoon with one of the most courageous people I have ever met in person. I went down to see Namir al-Azzawin, an Iraqi asylum seeker, after reading about his hunger strike last night on Migrant Tales.
Read on »Iraqi asylum seekers in Helsinki and the Kemi reception center will take part in peaceful protest Wednesday
Migrant Tales understands that the Kemi reception center, which is located in northern Finland, will take part in a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with a larger one planned for Helsinki Wednesday. The source at the Kemi reception center said that the demonstration is against a new assessment for Iraq, which now sees that it is a safe country to return asylum seekers.
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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