Counselling of Free Movement is available through pre-booking every Wednesday evening at Lymy (Pengerkatu 6). You can reserve a slot through email (vapaaliikkuvuus(at)gmail.com) or Facebook. The Free Movement offers counselling to migrants and their supporters. In counselling, we discuss, for example, the asylum process and the threat of deportation as well as the process of […]
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15.11.2021
Counselling open in Helsinki
The Right to Remain demonstration on Tuesday 10.12. by the Ministry of the Interior in Helsinki demands that all asylum seekers who came to Finland before 2017 receive residence permits. As has been shown several times, the Finnish asylum system didn’t treat fairly those asylum seekers who came during the crisis of European border politics 2015 and 2016. Many have waited more than 4 years for a decision on their future or are forced to live as undocumented migrants. Legalisation through a special, temporary law should be introduced immediately. […]
We are alarmed by the constant racist and rude behavior of some officers towards migrants at the Helsinki Police (Pasila Police Houses). Free Movement Network has received feedback from several migrants of colour about the bad treatment they have experienced whilst dealing with officers of Helsinki Police Department (HPD). It seems that the police does […]
