UN chastises Finland for rejecting asylum request from lesbian couple’s child fleeing Russia
Finland claimed bullying, threats, and physical violence against child and his family did not amount to persecution.
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A United Nations committee has chastised Finland for rejecting an asylum application from a child of a lesbian couple who was subjected to harassment, bullying, and even physical violence in his native Russia.
The child in question, known as “A.B.,” now 11 years old, fled from Russia to Finland in 2015 after the family faced threats and he began to be bullied at school. At the time, Russia had recently adopted legislation preventing the promotion of “non-traditional sexual relationships” meaning any statement that casts LGBTQ status in a positive or neutral light as part of its “anti-propaganda” law.
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