Asylum for Elena Maglevannaya!
An online petition urges Finland to grant asylum to the Russian human rights defender and journalist Elena Maglevannaya. She arrived in Finland in late May 2009 and has stayed here since. Maglevannaya applied for asylum in Finland after she was subjected to persecution by the Russian authorities for her articles about the torture of Chechen inmates in Russian prisons. Maglevannaya received several death threats from Russian ultranationalist organisations closely linked to the authorities. http://finrosforum.fi/asylum-for-elena-maglevannaya
Sign the Appeal in Support of the Gataevs
We appeal to the Finnish authorities to grant asylum to the Chechen couple, Malik and Khadizhat Gataev. They were arrested in Finland, pending deportation to Lithuania.
The couple ran an orphanage in Kaunas, but were arrested by state security in October 2008. Since then, they have been rollercoastered by the Lithuanian justice system. Deporting the Gataevs to Lithuania must not happen, since there are no guarantees that they would not be then deported to the inhumane conditions in their homeland, Chechnya.Read more about the case:“Angel of Grozny” arrested in LithuaniaFinrosforum, 21 October 2008
http://www.finrosforum.fi/?p=1365Angel of Grozny, Devils of Lithuania
Finrosforum, 11 March 2009
http://www.finrosforum.fi/?p=1976 Sign the Appeal: http://www.adressit.com/gatajev
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