Not many people are aware that every year more than 60 young men are sentenced to six and a half months of imprisonment because of their refusal to take part in the system of compulsory military service in Finland. This makes Finland the only European Union country in which Amnesty International says there are prisoners of conscience.
Jussi Hermaja.PHOTO: FOR MOTHER EARTH
Conscription system in Finland
There is still a very extensive conscription system in Finland.…