Here is the situation. Myself and another person republished Finnish prime minister's newspaper opinion piece from 1985 in which prime minister Matti Vanhanen condemned Estonian independence activists as hooligans. Normally this kind of information about current Finnish politicians' Soviet collaboration is not talked about, and it is pretty much taboo to dig the memory hole. Afterward it turned out that this launched an unprecedented retaliation by the Finnish authorities. Incidentally prime minister Vanhanen later resigned after it became public knowledge, that he had used state owned gambling monopoly profits meant for national health work for his re-election campaign.
I had been active in politics since late nineties and the other person even longer. We both ran again as candidates in Finnish parliamentary elections in 2007. We had a small party with only five candidates in the elections. I was operating as party secretary running the party web site and email from my home.
Few days before the election day I was walking to a nearby post office to mail an election related letter to another candidate. I was captured by the Finnish secret police KRP while I was walking to the post office. I was interrogated in local police jail about some Skype discussions. I followed the advice I had read on the Internet, and answered only ”no comment” to their questions in addition to identifying myself. After this my home was searched and my computers and cell phones were confiscated by the police. This included the computer used to for party email and web site, effectively making the party unable to operate as the election campaign was going on. Police never has claimed finding anything illegal or evidence of illegality either in the search of my home or on the computers or the cell phones.
Without my knowledge criminal charges were pressed against myself for 7 count of gross defamation, one count of incitement and one count of blasphemy against Allah and prophet Mohammed. Alleged defamation victims included a local judge, two prosecutors, a fellow police officer of the police who investigated the case, and a member of Finnish parliament Oras Tynkkynen. The other guy was charged for exactly the same alleged crimes plus two gross defamation charges against two additional parliament members. Prime minister Vanhanen appeared on national television news along with a prosecutor in the case blatantly getting involved in investigation and prosecution in the case violating the seperation of powers. This news section can be seen on Youtube (
http://youtu.be/eWt-dPEMtVE).
I had not been informed of the court proceedings against me. Instead the secret police again followed my, as I drove to another town to visit my parents. I was again captured and handcuffed by the secret police and again taken to police jail in city of Tampere. I notified the secret police officers of their continuing violation of speed limits and other minor illegalities in their actions. Their answers was that there is not speed trap on this road at the moment.
I asked about how I was going to get my medications essential to my continued survival. The secret police officers answers that a nurse would bring me my medications. I never received the medications, causing a life threatening rise in my blood pressure. I was held in the police jail, while the court proceedings were going on against me even without my knowledge or my having been brought charges to appear in the court. Only on the second day of the trial did they bring me charges, and took me to the court house. I informed the judges that there had been a serious delay in getting my essential medications, and that I had not prepared to answer the charges in any way, and that I did not have a lawyer. One of the judges answered that demanding a lawyer would cause even an extra delay in the proceedings. I was thereby force to answer to the charges without preparation and without lawyer in order to get my medications as soon as possible. One of the alleged defamation victims was a judge in the same court, and the two prosecutors who I was accused of defaming were also local prosecutors working in the same court. The police officer who I was alleged of defaming was a police officer from the same town as police who had investigated the case.
I was sentenced to a 14 months suspended prison sentence, a 900 euro fine, and to pay approximately one hundred thousand euros reparations to the alleged defamation victims and their lawyers. The other guy was sentenced to 28 month prison sentence and a similar amount of reparations. He served part of his sentence at a slave labor camp in town of Hämeenlinna doing slave labor to state owned bio-fuel company VAPO(
http://www.vapo.fi/en ). After the sentence I also found out that my Skype and Paypal accounts had been hacked. The hackers had moved 100 euros from my Paypal account to my Skype accounts, and had called phones in Germany and the Czhech Republic. Messages alleged to have been logged from Skype P2P network as my messages were used in the court as evidence against me.
I found a lawyer to take the case to a higher court, but he later refused the case after seeing the names of the alleged defamation victims. The time was running out in submitting a complaint to higher court, and large number of Finnish lawyers were on summer vacation. I was able to find a lawyer, who turned out to be a buddy of the prosecutor. He did not do much for my defense, but did the paperwork to take the case to higher court, and truthfully informed the court that there is not a single piece of evidence of my guilt. The police changed their story in the higher court, and the court did not change the sentence in any way. The lawyer also did the paper work to complain to the Finnish supreme court. The supreme court did not take the case into consideration.
The lawyer refused to take the case to European Court of Human rights, so I had to find another lawyer. The other lawyer did the paperwork, but ECH did not even take the case into consideration. I was unable to find a lawyer to take the case to the International Criminal court, so I wrote the ICC prosecutor myself, requesting the court to send criminal investigations to Finland to investigate torture, persecution and enslavement. ICC acknowledged the case, but made the decision not to proceed with the case for lack of evidence. I also appealed the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, who regretted not being able to intervene in the case.
I have also appealed the Finnish authorities, who blatantly make decisions based on the story of the secret police officers. When they get caught in a lie they change their story, and authorities make a new decision based on their new story.
Any legal help is welcome. Does anyone know of an international human rights lawyer who could help in the case?