Posted on 09/14/2017 4:04:59 AM PDT by grundle
STOCKHOLM – Sweden is about to deport Iranian Christian actress Aideen Strandsson back to Iran, where she faces torture, rape and even death in an Iranian prison.
It is a clear violation of international law. But, as Swedish officials have told Aideen, becoming a Christian was her decision, and now it's her problem and not theirs.
This from a nation that thinks of itself as the 'humanitarian superpower' that welcomed refugees with open arms, until the government took too much political heat and decided that some would have to go, even if it kills them.
Sweden's migration board even violates its own stated principles: that it will never deport asylum seekers to a nation where they will be harmed, according to Swedish Attorney Gabriel Donner, who has assisted an estimated 1,000 Christian asylum-seekers facing deportation.
"The migration board has on its home page information about each country. And in the information regarding Iran there are plenty of reports stating that it is standard to torture and rape in Iranian prisons," Donner said. "And the question we have been asking the migration board time and time again is why do you put this information on your homepage if you don't follow it? "
We asked Donner if, in Aideen's case, Swedish authorities don't believe she's a real Christian or they just don't care.
"They don't care," he replied. "It's numbers. They have promised the people of Sweden that they will deport more people than before, and so they have to fill a quota."
A Dream About Jesus
Aideen Strandsson came to Sweden in 2014 on a work visa and adopted a Swedish last name. She had starred in films and a TV series in Iran, making her an even bigger target if she is sent back.
She said she turned to Christ in Iran, after seeing a video of Muslims stoning a woman to death, telling us, "I decided at that moment I don't want to be Muslim anymore."
Then she said she had a dream.
"I had a dream about Jesus, and I remember he was sitting near me and he took my hand."
In Iran, where it can be deadly to convert to Christianity, Aideen kept her conversion largely a secret. But when she came to Sweden, she requested a public baptism.
She said, "I wanted to be baptized in public because I wanted say 'I am free,' 'I am a Christian,' and I wanted everyone to know about that."
Iranian intelligence most likely knows now, too. She's already gotten threats from Muslims on social media.
What Geneva Convention?
Article 33 of the Geneva Convention on Refugees, which Sweden signed, prohibits nations from deporting asylum seekers back to nations where they could face danger.
But that hasn't stopped Sweden.
CBN News has interviewed several Christian asylum seekers in Sweden facing danger because of deportation to Islamic nations.
Donner estimates there are 8,000 Christians hiding in Sweden because they are under deportation orders.
He said part of the problem is that migration officials don't understand why someone would become a Christian and don't understand what it means to be a Christian. Less than 20 percent of Swedes say they believe in God.
Donner said, "This is most apparent when they come to the question when a convert says I converted because of the love I have received from Jesus Christ. And they almost mockingly ask the convert, what do you mean by love? It's just completely alien to them.'
Asylum Rejected, Prison Expected
A Swedish Migration Board press officer told us, "If the person [has] well-founded reasons to fear persecution due to religious beliefs, he or she will be granted asylum in Sweden."
But Aideen's asylum request has been rejected and her case has been turned over to the border police. At her hearing, a Swedish migration official told her it wouldn't be as bad for her in Iran as she is expecting because it would only be six months in prison.
Donner told us a similar case in which an Iranian woman was imprisoned for becoming a Christian.
"After her release [from prison] she was silent, she did not tell what had happened. After six weeks she threw herself out of a window on the fourth floor and killed herself."
But stories like these may not help save Aideen from deportation.
She told us Swedish migration officials "don't care" about the danger she faces, and to them, six months in an Iranian prison is "no problem."
After our story posted, a Swedish migration official contacted CBN News saying they would not change their decision, no matter how many CBN readers contact them.
"Her case has been appealed and processed by the Migration Agency and thereafter by the Swedish courts -which have also decided that she cannot be granted asylum," Ulrika Langels wrote to CBN News.
"Please note that the fact that your readers write to us will not change the Migration Agencys decision, nor can we change the courts decision. I would therefore ask you to remove this from the article since the only answer we can give to your readers is what we already told you," Langels continued.
Sweden has become an (dis)honorary Islamic state.
Sweden: where men encourage the rape of their women,
as the innocent are sent to be slaughtered, for their Allah.
Middle East Christians are the most persecuted people on earth. The birthplace of Christianity is now almost devoid of Christians. They will not survive another generation unless they are given a secure homeland. The lack of compassion and courage by the Church in the West is disgraceful.
Give Sweden a break, will ya?
There is simply not enough room in Sweden for insane Sharia-demanding Islamic barbarians AND for peaceful Christians. So one of those groups has just got to go.
How humane. I hear Iranian prisons are not nice places especially to women. The war on Christianity,women and the fall of the West continues. She is very brave and I would implore President Trump to have her seek asylum in the U.S. but this country doesn’t take Christians.
Liberals are scum.
I have not yet figured out why they keep foreign rapists and deport Christians. I’m sure this makes sense to their Ctrl-Left, but I’m confused.
I love it - did you invent that? Really describes the Antifa generation.
I invented it (although others may also have done so independently). You are more than welcome to plagiarize shamelessly and without attribution.
The N or Arabic ‘nun’ for Nazarene?
A cross. An an Arabic “N” for Nazarene.
Sweden has gone totally insane, they have lost all reasoning power and the muzzies have taken over their minds. Germany is almost as bad. The world is in BIG trouble.
It is the Arabic letter for N, and it stands for Nazarean. The Muslims put it on homes in acts of persecution.
It personifies evil. Love is absent in their lives. Just like hardened criminals and members of Satan's constituents, when they have no love in their hearts, they do not care a bit about ending or damaging any soul.
She could be spirited out of Sweden in a fast motorboat to Poland.
So, do they have her under house arrest until she is dragged kicking and screaming to a Teheran-bound Iran Air jet?
I hate the Swedes and wish retribution upon them in the form of total Muslim domination. Where are the protests!!!?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4302128/Foreigners-not-deported-Sweden-rapes.html
Bureaucrats are evil shyts no matter where you are.
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