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I have been a member of the board of the Finnish Alliance. In one meeting I heard in my own ears, when chairman Heikki Tala told the board that Helsinki District Court was ready to ban our organization! An official had told this threat to our chairman in a meeting in the Ministry for Internal Affairs.
ReplyDeleteThis happened before the New York Times interviewed our chairman and published an article about Finland on December 25, 2005. This article mentioned our organization.
As far as I have understood, president Halonen, Prime Minister Vanhanen and other leading politicians were behind this threat to ban the Finnish Alliance - without any reason!
A government's threat to ban a peaceful organization (because of its opinions) violates the principles of democracy.