UPDATE: Sweden: Deportation nears for trans woman abused in native Russia

[SandraJane]

Sweden: Deportation nears for trans woman abused in native Russia


Time is fast running out for a Russian trans woman who, it was reported recently in Pink News, fears being forced by Swedish authorities to return to Russia, where she expects to face violence and possible imprisonment at the hands of the authorities.


by Jane Fae | 4 May 2012, 3:55pm


http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/05/04/sweden-deportation-nears-for-trans-woman-abused-in-native-russia/


According to "Lita", as she is known officially in Sweden, she received a phone call this morning requiring her to report to the Immigration Board at 11.30 am on Monday 7 May.

She will then be removed from the country the very next day.

According to Lita, this is the end. She told us: "There will be a simple choice for me: between fast death in russia and slow death if i would be in sweden illegally"

[Silent Killer]

shucks! this reminds me of myself fleeing from my own country. in her place, i'd fly and hide in sweden illegally and choose a slow death. even till now am depending on prostitution to survive in the new country i am than go back and be killed by the conservative narrow minded retards animals of my country.

[Shana A]

Sweden: Trans woman 'in hiding' to escape deportation to Russia
by Jane Fae
9 May 2012, 10:14am

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/05/09/sweden-trans-woman-in-hiding-to-escape-deportation-to-russia/

A Russian trans woman refused asylum in Sweden appears today to be defying Swedish authorities by refusing to aid them in their efforts to deport her to Russia.

"Lita" had been ordered by the Migration Board (Migrationsverket) to attend a meeting on Monday morning, preparatory to being deported this week. She failed to attend and, it is now understood through contacts, has "gone into hiding" while she prepares further grounds for appeal.

In one of her last conversations with PinkNews.co.uk, Lita asked supporters to help her in any way they could. She told us: "that could be through a petition, through writing to the Swedish authorities. Anything!"