'Seriously, Finland?' Red-faced minister deletes Instagram poll
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-finland/seriously-finland-red-faced-minister-deletes-instagram-poll-idUSKBN1YH1ER
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland’s finance minister deleted an Instagram post and issued an apology on Friday after criticism by a human rights group that embarrassed the new, women-led government days after it took office.
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“Seriously, Finland? This is awful, if true,” Andrew Stroehlein, the European media director of international watchdog Human Rights Watch, wrote on Twitter on Thursday.
“A state should respect the rights of its citizens in all cases, not put life-and-death decisions about those citizens to a public referendum on social media. What’s next, public hangings based on the volume of stadium cheers?”