Temporary stay of Egyptian grandmother in Finland is extended

The 65-year-old Egyptian grandmother Eveline Fadayel, one of the two women at the centre of a row earlier this year over interpretation of the Aliens Act, will be allowed to stay in Finland for the time being.
     
The European Court of Human Rights has extended its moratorium on Eveline Fadayel’s expulsion, which will prevent the implementation of the planned deportation of the elderly Egyptian citizen from Finland. The decision will be valid until further notice.
      As requested, Fadayel has submitted a detailed medical report on her state of health to the court. According to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Finnish government has also been informed of the related official letter and the updated medical certificate.
     
Fadayel’s residence applications have been rejected repeatedly, and initially she was to leave Finland by June 13th, but this did not happen. The grandmother’s family took her into hiding to prevent expulsion to Egypt, and her current whereabouts remain unknown.
      Eveline Fadayel has been living in Vantaa with her adult children for the last three years after her husband died in Egypt.
     
The case of the 82-year-old Russian grandmother Irina Antonova is also still pending at the European Court of Human Rights, even though she was taken voluntarily from Finland to Russia last June.
      Antonova first came to Finland in February 2008 to stay with her daughter. The Finnish Immigration Service felt that she was not dependent on her daughter, and ordered her to leave the country. This ruling was later upheld by the Supreme Administrative Court.
     
In June Antonova’s son-in-law said that the family was simply no longer able to put up with the prolonged deportation dispute.
      However, the family has not wanted to withdraw their appeal from the European Court of Human Rights.
      Antonova was first taken by ambulance to a hospital in Vyborg.
      Later she was to have a place in a home for the elderly kept by the Villa Inkeri association, which is located in Kikkeri, about 80 kilometres southwest of St. Petersburg.


Previously in HS International Edition:
  Family gives up resistance - Antonova to go back to Russia (8.6.2010)
  Promised legislation to protect grandparents of immigrants fizzles (26.5.2010)
  Egyptian grandmother refuses to leave (14.6.2010)

See also:
  Interior Ministry says different treatment of immigrants´ grandparents requires change in law (18.8.2010)
  Proposed amendment to Aliens Act draws fire (10.8.2010)
  European Court of Human Rights blocks expulsion of Irina Antonova (17.6.2010)