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FINNISH FOLLIES: COURT DECIDES ANY IRAQI FROM BAGDHAD REACHING FINLAND CAN STAY…….

NOTE: How long before word of the Finnish court’s decision reaches all the Muslims in Iraq wanting to earn a better living? One can imagine a flood of job opportunity and welfare seekers washing up on Finland’s shores.

Now here’s a guy who knows better but his hands are tied by a court of fools. KGS

Finland to start granting asylum to Baghdad residents again

HS: The Supreme Administrative Court handed down a decision on Thursday to reverse the expulsion orders of 17 Iraqi asylum seekers. The applicants were granted residence permits and were allowed to stay in Finland.

The Finnish Immigration Service felt that they should have been sent back to their home region.

Thursday’s rulings will affect the line taken by the Immigration Service in future cases, says Esko Repo, head of the asylum unit of the Immigration Service.

“In practice, we will no longer send people back to the Baghdad region”, Repo says.

From May 2009, the Immigration Service has taken the view that most of Iraq, including the capital Baghdad, is so safe that those arriving from the area are not in need of international protection on the basis of a general lack of security in the area that they come from. The new arrivals have been sent back unless there is a very specific reason why they should be granted asylum or a residence permit.

The Supreme Administrative Court found, contrary to the view taken by the Immigration Service, that the asylum seekers from Central Iraq face the danger of becoming victims of arbitrary violence.

“We gave the asylum unit special instructions immediately after the ruling”, Repo says.

Also on Thursday, the court rejected applications by 32 asylum seekers from the north of Iraq. The Supreme Administrative Court agreed with the view of the Immigration Service that none of the Iraqis from the autonomous Kurdish area were in need of international protection.

2 Responses

  1. Finland is going to hell in a handbasket. Our leaders should be executed (editor: dealt with according to the laws of the land).

    1. As editor of this blog, I can’t allow a comment calling for the killing of any Finn, let alone elected officials to stand unchallenged. That’s the reason for editing.

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