20231215

The frame up trial in Malmö, I detail abuses and violations of my civil rights in Skåne.

Article 5 (UNDHR): No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.


podcast: HOW SWEDEN VIOLATED MY ARTICLE 5 HUMAN RIGHTS.


I was subjected to degrading treatment in the context of proceedings related to being investigated on suspicion of a minor crime in Malmö in 2023. I was detained in a prison environment, and not a pre-trial detention facility, before being tried; in gross violation of the right to presumption of innocence and the prohibition of unlawful deprivation of liberty. The prosecutor and police engaged in this arbitrary behavior citing an alleged “flight risk” possibility that they did not back with any type of evidence. The panel that heard my appeal on detention was a panel of local Politicians and the prosecutor, not an impartial legal tribunal. That forum was clearly an illegitimate political rubberstamp proceeding lacking any type of judicial credibility. I was transported to and from the remand prison at Ystad in shackles as if I had been a terror or violent murder suspect. This was clearly intended and calculated to be cruel and humiliating. A minor offense does not merit such degrading treatment. Then, after almost one month of being detained in a prison environment before being tried, in gross violation of my civil rights; I was subjected to additional public humiliation in the courtroom by the trial judges who insisted on publicly showing a video of me going to the bathroom. That was deliberate and calculated to humiliate me before everyone in that court. The prosecutor insisted the video be shown, so the public humiliation was part of her court strategy. The judges could have blurred out the parts that offended my dignity, so the act was calculated. I objected to the public showing of the video but the judge showed it anyway at the insistence of the prosecutor. This clearly demonstrates that the trial was rigged against me a priori. I did not receive an impartial trial, therefore judgments derived from those fraudulent proceedings are illegitimate, null and void.

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 [TEXT AV ÖVERKLAGANDET]


Translated from English to Swedish with help from www.DeepL.com/Translator . 
Prof-read by Jaime Varela. 

Klagandens namn: Miguel Angel Torres (inte "Toores") [redacted]
adress: Migratiosnverket BOX 17 26521 Åstorp. (Migrationsverket Förvarsenheten)

telefonnummer: 07*****603

avgörande som överklagas: Skåne och Blekinge hovrätt (Avdelning 1, Rotel 13) i mål B 569-23. 2023-04-13.  Malmö.

den ändring av domen som klaganden har begärt: Åtalet ogillas och bötesbeloppet på 800 kronor upphävs.

De skäl som den klagande vill ange för att ändra beslutet:

Åtalet ogillas och böterna på 800 kronor upphävs på grundval av en bedömning av de bevis som åklagaren och polisen lagt fram, även på grund av att min rätt till oskuldspresumtion har förnekats och jag har utsatts för ett olagligt frihetsberövande på grund av missbruk av ursäkten om "flyktrisk" i en fängelsemiljö i tre veckor innan jag ställdes inför rätta. Jag anklagar polisen och åklagarmyndigheten för att genom att utsätta mig för ett olagligt frihetsberövande i en fängelsemiljö innan jag ställdes inför rätta ha kränkt min rätt till oskuldspresumtion, som påstås vara garanterad av EU-konventioner som är bindande för Sverige. Jag har lämnat in ett klagomål mot gränspolisen angående liknande kränkande beteende som bygger på ett medvetet åsidosättande av min rätt till oskuldspresumtion och i samband med samverkan i grovt förtal som är olagligt i Sverige. anmälningsdatum: 2023-02-24 Enhet: PKC-grupp 1 Rgn Bergslagen diarienummer: 5000-K224843-23

De skäl som klaganden vill ange för att pröviningstillstånd ska meddelas: I BrB (strafflagen) kap. 4 § 2 står följande: 2 § Den som i andra fall än vad som anges i 1 § eller 1 a § för bort eller fängslar någon eller på annat sätt berövar honom eller henne friheten, döms för olovligt frihetsberövande till fängelse i minst ett och högst tio år. Om brottet är mindre allvarligt är straffet böter eller fängelse i högst två år. Law (2002:436). I Europakonventionen om mänskliga rättigheter anges att "alla som anklagas för ett brott skall betraktas som oskyldiga tills motsatsen bevisas enligt lag". Detta följs av artikel 11.1 i FN:s allmänna förklaring om de mänskliga rättigheterna, där det står att alla som anklagas för ett straffrättsligt brott har rätt att presumeras oskyldiga till dess att deras skuld har bevisats på ett visst sätt.

Bevis som klaganden åberopar:

De påstådda bevis för skuld som åklagaren och polisen lagt fram är mycket tveksamma. Det är ett påhitt av åklagaren att jag placerade smarttelefonen som jag hittade på kyrkans toalett i en väska. Det finns ingen video där jag placerar något i en väska, och det finns heller inga video- eller fotografiska bevis för att det finns någon väska i lokalerna vid kyrkans toalett.  Ägaren till smartphonen fick under rättegången frågan om hon såg mig lämna kyrkans toalett med en väska och hon svarade nej.  Jag hade ingen väska med mig vid bordet när jag deltog i middagen efter att ha lämnat toaletten. Om jag hade haft en väska med telefonen saknad telefon i hade den ringt och jag skulle ha upptäckts. En tredje person förutom jag och ägaren hade den telefonen medan jag var på middag. Åklagaren gjorde en stor grej av att jag lämnade evenemanget i förtid. Jag har rätt att lämna alla offentliga evenemang när jag vill. Jag berättade för pastorn när han bjöd in mig en vecka tidigare att jag inte skulle kunna stanna hela kvällen.  

Åklagaren gjorde en stor show av fotot av den apparat som används för att ta bort simkort från smartphones (SIM-utmatningsverktyg). De flesta människor använder en pappersklämma för att göra det, det krävs ingen särskild apparat för att ta bort dem. I vilket fall som helst tillhörde den särskilda utrustningen den person som ägde husvagnen. Den befann sig inte i det avbildade facket utan i ett angränsande.  Poliskvinnan som arresterade mig tog SIM-utmatningsverktyg från det fack som husvagnens ägare hade placerat den i och flyttade den till det fack som hon ville att den skulle vara i för att lättare kunna sätta dit mig och tog sedan ett foto. SIM-utmatningsverktyg tillhörde husvagnens ägare. Det foto som åklagaren presenterade för domstolen var iscensatt av den poliskvinna som arresterade mig. Det finns inga video- eller fotografiska bevis för att jag använde någon anordning för att ta bort simkortet från en smarttelefon och polisen lade inte fram några daktiloskopiska bevis för att stödja påståendet att jag använde den nämnda anordningen för att ta bort simkortet.

slutsats:

En person kan endast sättas i fängelse om han eller hon bevisas skyldig på grundval av bevis som styrker skulden.  Jag placerades i en fängelsemiljö i Ystad och transporterades till och från nämnda fängelse under extrema och missbrukande tvångsåtgärder innan jag ställdes inför rätta; jag var också isolerad i det fängelset i nästan två och en halv vecka innan jag kunde kontakta någon i mitt nätverk. Detta undergrävde min förmåga att effektivt försvara mig. Allt detta hände samtidigt som jag befann mig i ett juridiskt oskuldstillstånd i enlighet med Europeiska unionens konventioner som är bindande för Sverige och som påstås garantera rätten till oskuldspresumtion. 

böter:

Jag får veta att jag kan behöva betala 800 sek i böter. Jag frågade personalen på Åstorp och de sa att de skulle fråga i detta upprop om detta. Jag har inget bankkonto eller SWISH. Jag har inte möjlighet att lämna lokalen för att betala på polisstationen eller domstolsbyggnaden.

tack för din uppmärksamhet,

Mvh,

Jaime Varela Torres
a.k.a "Miguel Angel Toores"

20230821

Varför jag kommer INTE att ansöka om asyl i Sverige den 22 augusti 2023.



Re:  Jag kommer inte att ansöka om asyl den 22 augusti 2023.

(En spansk översättning av detta missiv kommer att vidarebefordras till Republiken Kubas justitieministerium / A Spanish translation of this missive will be forwarded to the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Cuba.)

Translated with help from www.DeepL.com/Translator

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Till Migrationsverket:

Jag informerades om att jag enligt gränspolisens beslut av den 2023-08-02 (Diarienr: A***.***/2022) den 22 augusti 2023 kan ansöka om asyl igen. Jag har tänkt igenom det noga och beslutat att jag inte kommer att lämna in en asylansökan till Sverige det datumet. Detta eftersom det skulle innebära en intressekonflikt för både mig och den svenska staten.

I was informed that according to the Border Police ruling of 2023-08-02 (Diarienr: A***.***/2022) on August 22, 2023 I can apply for asylum again. I have thought about it carefully and decided that I will not be filing an application for asylum with Sweden on that date. This because doing so would represent a conflict of interest for both myself and the Swedish State.

Följande är skälen till att jag avstår från att ansöka om asyl den 22 augusti:
(The following are the reasons I decline to apply for asylum on August 22:)

1. I den verkliga världen beviljas privatpersoner asyl på grundval av regeringens politiska intressen. Den rationella beräkningen av statens intresse är överordnad propagandistiska påståenden om "humanitär oro". Som medlem i Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti är jag en politisk fiende till den svenska staten i allmänhet och till dess nuvarande regering i synnerhet (koalition av moderater, kristdemokrater med stöd av Sverigedemokraterna). Jag är också motståndare till NATO och en svuren fiende till USA imperialismen. Under dessa politiska omständigheter kan jag inte förvänta mig att en asylansökan från mig skulle få en opartisk och objektiv behandling. Migratiosnverket och Justitiedepartementet styrs för närvarande av moderata ministrar. Det svenska moderata partiet har en lång historia av fientlighet mot den revolutionära vänstern i allmänhet och kommunister i synnerhet. Fientligheten är naturligtvis ömsesidig. Jag är inte beredd att ändra mitt politiska engagemang för den marxistiska politik för att få asyl i Sverige.

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1. In the real world asylum is granted to private persons on the basis of the political interests of the government. The rational calculation of State interest is predominant over propaganda claims to "humanitarian concern". As a member of the Communist Party of Sweden (Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti) I am a political enemy of the Swedish State in general and of its current government in particular (coalition of Moderates, Christian Democrats with support of the Sweden Democrats). I am also an opponent of NATO and a sworn enemy of United States imperialism. Under these political circumstances I cannot expect that an application for asylum filed by me would recieve impartial and objective treatment. Migratiosnverket and the Justice Ministry are managed at present by a Moderate ministers. The Swedish Moderate party has a long record of hostility to the revolutionary left in general and communists in particular. The hostility is mutual, of course. I am not willing to change my political commitment to Marxist politics in order to obtain asylum from Sweden.

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2. Det andra skälet till att jag vägrar att söka asyl är att jag, om jag mot förmodan skulle beviljas asyl, inte skulle kunna betala skatt i Sverige om landet går med i Nato. Detta eftersom Sverige som medlem i Nato kommer att tvingas betala 3 procent av sin BNP i medlemsavgift och jag vill inte att mina skattepengar skall gå till att finansiera en krigsallians som underkastar sig USA:s imperialismen rovgiriga och krigiska intressen. Dessutom skulle ett medlemskap i Nato innebära att Sverige riskerar att bli måltavla för en kärnvapenattack. Jag vill inte leva i atombombens skugga. Om jag tvingades stanna här skulle jag inte ha någon annan utväg än att göra motstånd mot krigsskatten. Motstånd mot krigsskatt innebär att man vägrar att betala en del av eller hela den skatt till staten som betalar kriget; för värnpliktsvägrare innebär motstånd mot krigsskatt civil olydnad. 

2. The second reason I decline to apply for asylum is that, in the unlikely event it was granted; I would not be able to pay taxes in Sweden if the country joins NATO. This because as a member of NATO Sweden will be required to pay 3% of its GDP as a membership fee and I do not want my taxes to go to the financing of a war alliance subservient to the predatory and bellicose interests of United States imperialism. Also, membership in NATO would place Sweden in danger of being targeted by a nuclear attack. I do not want to live under the shadow of the nuclear bomb. If was was forced to stay here I would have no recourse but to engage in war tax resistance. War tax resistance means refusing to pay some or all of the taxes to the State that pay for war; for conscientious objectors, war tax resistance involves civil disobedience.

3. Det tredje skälet till att jag vill avstå från att ansöka om asyl är respekt för minnet av min fästman Yusuf som mördades som en direkt följd av den avvisning som utfördes av den svenska gränspolisen i oktober 2013. Yusuf migrerade till Europa via Spanien och Frankrike till Sverige 2011. Han tvångsavvisades till Tchad (Tašād) av den svenska gränspolisen, ett land som han inte kom ifrån (Från förvaret i Kållered mejlade han mig att han hoppades kunna skickas tillbaka till Spanien eftersom han hade tagit sig in i Schengenområdet där. Det var det sista meddelandet jag fick från honom). Vid den tidpunkt då han avvisades till Tchad (Tašād) befann sig landet mitt i en inbördeskonflikt som uppstått efter Muammar al-Gaddafis fall i Libyen 2011. Tchad (Tašād) hade varit ett Libyskt protektorat före 2011 och efter Muammar al-Gaddafis fall imploderade landet i våld. Efter att Yusuf utvisad dit i oktober 2013 försökte Yusuf lämna Tchad. När han närmade sig gränsen överfölls han av en grupp beväpnade män och dödades. Yusuf och jag planerade att gifta oss i mars 2014 i Lövnäskyrkan på Hammarö. Han greps av den svenska gränspolisen i september 2013 och refoulades i oktober 2013. Någon hittade en adressbok på hans person och var vänlig nog att skicka ett e-postmeddelande till hans syster i Rabat om vad som hänt. Hon mejlade mig för att berätta i januari 2014.

3. The third reason I want to decline to apply for asylum is respect for the memory of my fiancee Yusuf who was murdered as a direct result of refoulement carried out by the Swedish Border Police in October 2013. Yusuf migrated to Europe via Spain and France to Sweden in 2011. He was forcibly refouled to Tchad (Tašād) by the Swedish Border Police, a country he did not come from (from the detention center at Kållered he emailed me that he was hoping to be sent back to Spain because he entered the Schengen Zone there. That was the last communication I had from him). At the time he was refouled to Tchad (Tašād) the country was in the midst of civil conflict derived from the aftermath of the 2011 fall of Muammar al-Gaddafi in Lybia. Tchad (Tašād) had been a Lybian protectorate before 2011 and after the fall of Muammar al-Gaddafi the country imploded into violence. After Yusuf was deported there in October 2013 Yusuf attempted to leave Tchad; as he was nearing the border he was set upon a group of armed men and killed. Yusuf and I were planning to get married in March of 2014 at Lövnäskyrkan in Hammarö. He was detained by the Swedish Border Police in September 2013 and refouled in October 2013. Someone found an address book on his person and was kind enough to email his sister in Rabat about what happened. She emailed me to tell me in January 2014.

4. [REDACTED] 

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Conclusion:

Jag är inte intresserad av svensk asyl. Särskilt sedan 2015 har brottsligheten, den ekonomiska situationen och migrationssituationen drastiskt försämrats i Sverige. Det svenska uppehållstillståndet är grovt övervärderat och värt hälften av vad det var värt före pandemin.

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I am not interested in Swedish asylum. Especially since 2015 the crime, economic and migratory situation drastically deteriorated in Sweden. The Swedish residence permit is grossly overvalued and worth half what it was worth prior to the pandemic.

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Thank you for your attention, 

Miguel Angel Torres
(Andres Nicolas Moran) 
beteckningsnummer: 12****09 
åstorp Förvar inmate nummer: 1*1


20230519

Deportations of Young Children from Sweden.

A particularly gruesome facet of the Swedish system is it practise of deporting young children alone. This pattern of abuse against defenceless young children unmasks the true face of Sweden as a humanitarian fraud. Cold blooded bureaucratic RACISM cynically disguised as "rule of law". 


2014

Sweden cultivates a fake humanitarian image internationally in order to derive business and diplomatic advantage from it. In reality the facade wears thin upon close scrutiny. If there was justice in this world Sweden would be expelled from the UNHCR 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. In addition Sweden should be subjected to punitive economic sanctions for its deliberate refoulement and racist deportation practices. 


2021

Note that before the Ukraine war, Sweden routinely deported Trans-sexuals and Chechens back to Putin's Russia. The case of a Chechen woman  was covered in the film Förvaret (2015). I have posted earlier about the case of Trans-sexuals. 

20230430

Application for Political Asylum with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Esteemed Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Sweden;  

My name is [Andres Nicolas Moran]. I am a  person [original to the State of Florida, USA] currently being held hostage at a migrant detention center operated by the Swedish Migration Board at Åstorp, Skåne (Sweden). I approach you with a formal request for political asylum. I am currently being held hostage under the name "Miguel Angel Toores" (sic.) on orders of the Swedish Border Police. The Swedish Border Police are under the mistaken impression that I am interested in staying in Sweden without permission and furthermore that I have the intention of seeking to obtain their overvalued residence permit by subterfuge. That I am a so-called "flight risk".  

[An article about my pre-pandemic experience (2019-21) with the Swedish immigration system was published here:


The "flight risk" loophole is the universal excuse that Swedish Police use to negate the Human Right to presumption of innocence to persons of an immigrant background. Swedish jails, prisons and detention centers are currently overfilled with immigrant inmates whose Human Right to presumption of innocence has been collectively and systematically violated under the said pretext. I was interned at the remand prison at Ystad, Skåne for three weeks in January 2023 BEFORE being tried, under the excuse of being an alleged "flight risk"; I was interned in a prison environment while being in a legal state of innocence. I have not been compensated for this, even though the rules say that a person is to be compensated for time spent in unlawful deprivation of liberty (no one is compensated as a result of the "flight risk" loophole, I am told). On 1 April 2018 new European rules allegedly strengthening the guarantee that anyone suspected or accused in criminal proceedings is innocent until proven guilty came into effect; but Sweden ignores these rules by abusing the "flight risk" loophole its Justice Ministry concocted in 2019.  


I. 


Sweden's hypocritical view of Socialist Vietnam:  


(1) The Swedish Foreign Ministry claims about the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: "Respect for human rights shows serious shortcomings. Human rights defenders, journalists and other media actors are regularly arrested and sentenced on arbitrary grounds." 


Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile." 


Article 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty." 


I have already commented on the systematic violation and negation of presumption of innocence Human Rights for persons with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden through the systematic abuse of the "flight risk" loopholeImmigrants (especially those of an African and/or Arabic background) are regularly harassed, arrested, imprisoned and sentenced on arbitrary grounds by private security guards, Police, prosecutors, and courts in Sweden.  

 

The evidence is in the overpopulated Swedish prisons, jails and detention centers which are filled with inmates of an immigrant background. At the Ystad, Skåne remand prison, where I was interned in January of 2023, every single one of the four cell-blocks set aside for males in the wing of the facility I was placed at was filled with inmates of an immigrant background (mostly Arabic / Middle Eastern). In the cell block that I was interned there was only ONE white Swedish citizen. 

 

The racism of the Swedish State is demonstrated by the attitude it takes towards immigrants who have lived long term in Sweden and then are summarily deported. I have lived in Sweden since June 2001, for example. A young man from El Salvador who is a fellow inmate in this facility at present has been in Sweden ten years. Another inmate from Albania (deported last week), 13 years. A case that illustrates the brutal and inhuman face of Swedish immigration policy is that of Chancelvie Lelo, 22 years old. She came to Sweden as a child and came of age here, she was established in Halmstad after eleven years in Sweden. Nevertheless, she was brutally deported. I relate to her case because I was taken out of the country I was born into as a child of two. Sweden does not care one bit about the human rights of those of us who had no control over immigration decisions in our childhood. Too add insult to injury, Chancelvie Lelo did not have her case or deportation legally tested.   


Given the Chancelvie Lelo case, Sweden has not an ounce of standing to charge that in Socialist Vietnam "Human rights defenders, journalists and other media actors are regularly arrested and sentenced on arbitrary grounds"; because in "democratic" Sweden immigrants of color and others are regularly harassed, arrested and deported on arbitrary racist grounds. And if they cannot be deported because they have a passport, they are thrown into prison under the "flight risk" loophole.  


(2) The Swedish Foreign Ministry claims about the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: "The media is state-controlled and self-censorship is common. Internet use is widespread, but the network is controlled and filtered with the support of law." 


Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom..." 


American dissident Noam Chomsky once commented about media in the United States: "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." This comment aptly applies to Sweden as well as the United States. Take for example the recent parliamentary elections in 2022; disproportionate time and attention was given by the Swedish establishment media to supporters of the racist Swedish Democrat party while radical critics of detention as well as anti-deportation refuseniks and No Human is Illegal activists were ignored. I say this with great indignation, because between April 2014 and August 2018 I was organized with a Christian anti-deportation activist network taking direct action to obstruct detention and deportation of vulnerable asylum seekers.  


I take pride in the fact that during those four years I, in collaboration with a group of anonymous others, helped prevent the deportation of nine persons, including three ethnic Afghan young men who were going to be deported to a war zone they did not come from and two converts from Islam to Christianity who were threatened with deportation to situations where their lives were at risk because of their so-called "apostasy". I made the church cabin I lived at in Hammarö, Värmland available to hide vulnerable people wanted for deportation from Sweden by the Border Police. For four years the church cabin I live at became a station in the underground railroad out of Sweden for vulnerable asylum seekers.  


The expression of radical and fundamental oppositional criticism against racist immigration laws, xenophobic practices and repressive Police abuses against persons of an immigrant background are systematically filtered out of the Swedish establishment media. Swedish Authorities do not respect Article 18 of the declaration of Human Rights when it comes to Muslim converts to Christianity. Muslim converts to Christianity in Sweden are mechanically deported to North African and Middle Eastern countries where they face violent reprisal and even the death penalty for "apostasy". The Swedish State claims that these people do not need protection because they could just "fake it and be closeted"; again, disregarding the clear language of Article 18 "...and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."  Swedish Authorities do not acknowledge the input of pastors and clergy from Equmeniakyrkan, Svenska Kyrkan, Evangeliska Frikyrkan and Pingstkyrkan who certify to the genuine nature of the conversions. People have testified that during the asylum interviews Muslim converts to Christianity are aggressively interrogated about complex details of Christian theology and verbally tricked so as to find reason to portray them as "false converts" and deny their asylum claims. To add insult to injury these people are sometimes deported to countries they did not come from. In January 2018 Migrationsverket ruled that Equmeniakyrkan and Pingstkyrkan were "sects" (!); so as to invalidate all conversions to these denominations.  


(3) The Swedish Foreign Ministry claims about the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: "Trials do not live up to international standards. Detention periods are often long and in sensitive cases, such as for crimes against national security, can be for an indefinite period. The courts are under the influence of the Communist Party" 


When I read this, I could not help but react in anger. In Sweden the court system is rigged against immigrants, again the fact is proven by the over representation of persons of an immigrant background (especially those of color) in Swedish prisons, jails and detention centers. Swedish courts are under the influence of racist supporters of the Swedish Democrat party who hold positions in the judiciary, thus making the Swedish courts in-hospitable to immigrant defendants. The only "oasis" of justice for immigrants was the court that heard appeals to release people from immigrant detention, but that "oasis" is not there anymore.  

 

There are people who have been interned at the detention centers in Märsta and here at Åstorp who have been detained for more than the one-year limit. Allegedly people only stay detained for "two months", but that is a lie. People are simply re-arrested. Long detention periods are a form of torture, especially when the person is not guilty of a crime.  


It is for this reason that inmates escaped from the Åstorp detention facility a month ago and before that in August of 2022: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/KnG5l6/hal-i-vaggen-tre-rymde-fran-forvar. I maintain that the three young men who recently escaped were justified in having taken drastic measures to ensure their integrity, security and to protect their lives. 


I was fortunate that the "oasis" appeals tribunal I mentioned released me from immigrant detention in January 2020; but my fiancée Yusuf was not as lucky. He was railroaded by the Swedish Border Police seven years before. In the summer of 2013 Yusuf and I decided to get married. Tentatively in March of 2014. I was going to ask the Pastor at Lövnäskyrkan Församling in Hammarö, Värmland if she would perform the ceremony since the Församling had a history of being friendly to LGBTQi people. Lövnäskyrkan was one of the first congregations in Sweden to have an openly Lesbian pastor in the year 2000. To make a story short, Yusuf was abducted by the Swedish Border Police in September of 2013. He was simply whisked away when I was not present, and I was denied information about his whereabouts. From the detention (I think it was Kållered), he emailed me that he was being deported to Tchad, a country he was not from. That is the last time I ever heard of him. In February of 2014 I received an email from a relative of his in Morocco that Yusuf had committed suicide. I wrote an angry email to Migrationsverket complaining about what had happened to Yusuf after he was abducted. Migrationsverket responded that "they do not take responsibility for what happens to individuals after they are removed from Sweden/Schengen by the border police (Granspolisen)". This is the cold blooded and bureaucratic face of "democratic" Sweden, the Swedish Foreign Ministry has no standing to criticize Socialist Vietnam given the record of systematic abuse and insults immigrants are subjected to in Sweden on a daily basis, especially if they are persons of color or gay.  


2012 and 2013 were the black years for gay immigrants in Sweden. Many gay immigrants were in hiding. It was in that era that a Transexual woman and her partner were deported back to Russia, despite the fact that they would face violence and abuse there. Their case received coverage in the media, and they had the support of the RFSL, and still they were deported. The Trans woman (Lita) went into hiding but was found and then removed. Yusuf was one of the victims of those black years, although he was one of the many Gay people from African and Middle Eastern countries who were disappeared by the Border Police in that era but whose cases were not publicized. Note the hypocrisy of Sweden when the Foreign Ministry denounces Putin's Russia today but had no objection to deporting persecuted gays and trans people back to Putin's jurisdiction in 2012-2013. 


 

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III.  


In conclusion: I want to state that I believe I am in danger of retaliation from the Swedish State and the United States Government. I believe that I have a well-grounded fear that I am at risk of retaliatory abuse, retaliatory violence, rendition and/or other serious harm; specially in times of Swedish integration into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 


It is for this reason that I seek political asylum with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.  


Thank you for your kind attention,  
 

Jaime Varela Torres 

"Miguel Angel Toores" 

tel: 073****603 

 
Ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas Marxiste 

// Karl Marx 

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Reference:  
 

(1) The official perspective on Socialist Vietnam from The Swedish State: