A rally in defense of the rights of Vainakh refugees took place in the Finnish capital.

Representatives of the Vainakh diaspora held a rally in Helsinki demanding that Finnish authorities not allow biased treatment of refugees from Chechnya and Ingushetia when making migration decisions.

Representatives of the Vainakh diaspora held a rally in Helsinki, Finland, dedicated to protecting the rights of refugees and migrants. Participants called on Finnish authorities to stop socially stigmatizing asylum seekers from Chechnya and Ingushetia.

The increasing number of cases of international protection status reviews and revocations of residence permits has become a cause for concern, human rights activist Roza Dunaeva reported on her Facebook page* on June 22.

The participants called on Finnish authorities not to allow migration decisions to be based on speculation. Finnish immigration authorities must rely solely on facts, not suspicions, they stated. At the end of the protest, the organizers sent an official appeal to the leadership of the Finnish Immigration Service, demanding that the principle of collective responsibility be eliminated and that each immigration case be considered strictly individually.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that in 2024, Muslim Tsintsaev, a native of Chechnya detained in France, faced deportation to his homeland; representatives of the diaspora held rallies in his defense.

In October 2024, a protest against the extradition of a native of Chechnya to Russia took place in Austria. Selima, 32, who fled domestic violence, was detained in Bosnia. According to the Chechen diaspora, she was placed on the wanted list in Russia at the insistence of her husband's relatives.

In February 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg refused to overturn the decision of the French authorities to extradite the 55-year-old Chechen native to Russia. He himself insisted that he was at risk of torture in his homeland.

Caucasian Knot publishes materials about human rights violations in Chechnya, Kadyrov's attacks on the opposition, and his fight against dissent in the republic on the thematic page "Dissent in Chechnya".

* Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) is banned in Russia.