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The government on Tuesday proposed emergency legislation that would allow border guards to reject asylum requests and push back migrants trying to cross Finland’s 1,340-km border with Russia. Finland believes Moscow is promoting migration in retaliation for Helsinki joining the transatlantic alliance Nato that backs Ukraine against Russia.

Its strongest opponents include members of a smaller opposition group, the Left Alliance, which holds 11 of parliament’s 200 seats.Martti Koskenniemi, professor emeritus of international law at the University of Helsinki, said it conflicted with Finland’s constitution and its international human rights commitments, in particular the principle of not returning asylum seekers to a country where they would be in probable danger.

“It is unheard of that a Finnish authority would be allowed to make on the basis of a gut feeling such judgements that are not administrative decisions and cannot be appealed,” he told Reuters.

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