Mother and son Olga and Nikita Belov were facing torture and death after their asylum claim was repeatedly rejected
A Russian family who were on the brink of being deported from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum – despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and torture for their pro-Ukrainian activism – have won a court appeal and will now have their case reconsidered.
Nikita Belov and his mother, Olga Belov, fled their homeland for Finland in 2022 after attracting the attention of Russian authorities – including military summons, threatening messages and attempts to locate them – for expressing opposition to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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