Christian converts in the Swedish asylum process
Christian converts in the Swedish asylum process
- legally treated or sentenced to death penalty?
Scandinavian Human Rights Lawyers is co-hosting a seminar with the current theme: Christian converts in the Swedish asylum process.
It has become increasingly obvious that there are questions on how Christian converts from Islam are treated in the asylum process in Sweden. At the seminar we will ask the questions: What does the overall picture look like and what can and should be done about it, and by whom?
The seminar will be held at Biskopsgatan 3, Uppsala University on November 29 at 11am - 1pm.
Registration is required and a limited number of places are available. Register here
Welcome!
/Scandinavian Human Rights Lawyers, Newman Institute, Signum and Rätt till tro
*The seminar will be in Swedish and no translation provided. For more details contact info@shrl.eu
Skandinaviska Människorättsjuristerna (SHRL) är en skandinavisk juristorganisation som arbetar med att främja mänskliga rättigheter i Europa. SHRL är medlem i EU:s plattform för mänskliga rättigheter, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights http://fra.europa.eu/en)
SHRL arbetar via internationella nätverk och organ och som styrdokument finns FN:s deklaration om mänskliga rättigheter, Barnkonventionen, Europakonventionen om de mänskliga rättigheterna och Europarådets konvention om bekämpande av människohandel. SHRL och Scandinavian Human Rights Committee delar årligen ut priset Scandinavian Human Dignity Award.
Pro Victims Justice Conference in Bucharest
Our cooperating lawyer and partner Henrietta is participating in an EU-conference in Bucharest, speaking about the challenges and
strategies to promote justice for victims of crime, from a Swedish perspective. The conference is part of one of our EU projects where we
strengthen the cooperation between lawyers all over Europe
If you wish to read more about the project, visit our project site Pro Victims Justice 760112
Their father drowned in the Mediterranean - now the family is facing severe persecution in Sweden
We are now helping a Christian Afghan family who were forced to flee to Sweden after their conversion to christianity. The father and two of the children drowned on the journey across the Mediterranean sea. In Sweden the mother and her three remaining children are facing severe persecution. The mother and the daughters have been threathend with death and attacked several times. The persecutors have scratched the IS symbols on their door. Although the family has been forced to move the persecuters have always found them. The daughters have been scratched with knives, marked to have converted from Islam when they were on their way to church. The threats come from both the home country and also from countrymen in Sweden who threatens to cut their throats if they return to Afghanistan.
Yet the Swedish Migration Board does not find the family’s Christian faith to be genuine enough.
We are therefore appealing their case and if we are not granted leave to appeal we will bring their case to the UN’s Committee Against Torture and we need your help!
Would you like to to help Batala and her family? Information about how to donate you will find here
Thank you!