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Finland: Legal System Racist on custody?

01 July 1995

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Two leading legal experts, Paavo Nikula, a Green MP, and university professor Martin Scheinin, allege the Finnish judicial system to be racist on parents' custody issues. They criticised a case where a Finnish citizen of Iranian descent was deprived of his rights to see his child after divorcing a woman, born in Finland. The court's decision came after strongly anti-Islamic allegations against the father of the child had been tolerated in the court-room. "There are reasons to be worried about the impartiality of the Finnish courts in cases were a foreigner and a Finn meet in court over the custody of children", says Mr. Scheinin, who teaches human rights and constitutional law at the University of Helsinki. Hufvudstadsbladet 2.7.95.

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