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Russians Need To Respect Themselves

Teemu Matinpuro, executive director of the Finnish Peace Committee, and Kerkko Paananen, information secretary of the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum (FINROSFORUM), gave an interview to Lyudmila Mamina, editor-in-chief of Kasparov.Ru, about the Finnish edition of Novaya Gazeta, the attitude of Finnish society to Anna Politkovskaya, the war in Chechnya, and the current political situation in Russia.


http://finrosforum.fi/russians-need-to-respect-themselves

Filed under: Amnesty Chechnya FINROSFORUM Finland Kadyrov Medvedev Novaya Gazeta Politkovskaya Putin Rauhanpuolustajat Russia
 

Chechens in Finland Against Hate Speech
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Around 30 members of the Chechen diaspora in Finland held a peaceful demonstration outside the Lutheran church in the town of Raasepori on 31 October 2010. The demonstrators wanted to turn the attention of the parishioners to the threats and malicious statements of pastor Juha Molari against Chechen refugees in Finland. The demonstrators handed out leaflets informing the parishioners about Molari's documented statements and carried placards saying, "We are not terrorists", "Why does this pastor persecute us?", and "Molari's hate group persecutes refugees".

http://finrosforum.fi/chechens-in-finland-against-hate-speech
Filed under: Chechnya Church Finland Racism Xenophobia
 

Asylum for Elena Maglevannaya!
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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

Filed under: Appeal Asylum Chechnya Finland Journalism Maglevannaya Petition Russia
 

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 Lithuania
Finrosforum, 21 October 2008
http://www.finrosforum.fi/?p=1365

Angel of Grozny, Devils of Lithuania
Finrosforum, 11 March 2009
http://www.finrosforum.fi/?p=1976

Sign the Appeal: http://www.adressit.com/gatajev

Filed under: Appeal Asylum Chechnya Finland Human Rights Lithuania
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