Irina Antonova, a disabled Russian retiree, who was deported from Finland this June, has died in a Russian home for elderly people in late July, Johan Beckman, lawyer for Antonova's relatives said on Sunday.
"Irina Antonova died on July 24 in Kikerinsky home for elderly people, I have already notified the European Court of Human Rights, we are now looking for its reaction," Beckman said.
The 82-year-old woman, who suffered two strokes and cannot take care of herself, was brought to Finland from Russia in February 2008 by her daughter, Natalia Kaarik, a Finnish citizen.
Although the woman has no relatives in Russia, Finland's migration service ruled that she could not be permitted to stay in the country and must be deported for violating visa regulations. The European Court of Human Rights, however, ruled against her deportation this summer.
Kaarik said in an interview with GZT.ru news portal e that Finnish doctors refused to treat her mother, who suffered a second stroke on June 15 and was hospitalized in Helsinki, saying that she was stable and insisting on her dismissal from the hospital.
"Finnish doctors, who are 'the most humane,' are throwing her out. They insisted on her discharge a day after the stroke, saying she is in satisfactory condition. But in reality her condition is poor. She would not live without doctors or a hospital," GZT.ru cited Kaarik as saying.
On June 22, after Antonova was discharged from the hospital, Kaarik decided to take her mother back to Vyborg, where local authorities pledged to provide all necessary medical and social assistance.
Kaarik and her husband brought Antonova to the Finnish-Russian border in their car, where they were met by Russian doctors.
