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UK: Fifty Iraqi Kurds forcibly deported to
Iraq
29.10.2008
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I am
circulating this press release from my friend,
Dashty, at the International Federation of Iraqi
Refugees, published today, and would urge all
members and supporters of Amnesty to write to the
new Immigration Minister to protest the forcible,
and apparently unlawful, deportations to Iraq on
Monday.
October 29, 2008
UK, — Yadga an Iraqi Kurd detained in
Tinsley House reported to IFIR that a number of
Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers were taken from Tinsley
and Dover House to Stansted Airport on 27October..
Yadga told the Home Office escorts that he was due
to be released that day. The escorts however ignored
him. Yadga was forced onto a coach with the other
Kurdish asylum seekers. Yadga reported there was a
convoy of four coaches travelling to the airport.
Each asylum seeker as before was accompanied by two
escorts. Following phone calls from Yadga’s
solicitors he was taken from the holding area at
Stansted airport and returned to Tinsley House at
6pm yesterday evening.
Dashty Jamal IFIR Secretary called Awat from
Sulaimaniyah. Awat said he and five other Kurdish
asylum seekers refused to board the plane and were
beaten very badly by their escorts prior to being
forced to board the International Hamburg airplane,www.ekurd.net
the flight arrived at
Erbil airport at approximately 4am the morning of
the 28 October. Awat reported that they waited in
Erbil for 30 minutes until they were diverted to
Sulaimaniyah airport.
This is the sixth time that Iraqi Kurds have been
forcibly removed in such large numbers. Generally
the UK deports Iraqi Kurds using Royal Jordanian
airlines on charter planes. All of these removals
are in contravention of the Geneva Convention which
states that asylum seekers should not be returned to
a war zone.
IFIR asks all Human and refugee rights
organisations,www.ekurd.net
Trade Unions and Trade
Councils to write letters of protest condemning this
flight to the Home Secretary:
Phil Woolas,
2 Marsham St, London SW1P
Fax:00442070354745
International Federation of Iraqi
Refugees-IFIR
CSDIraq
For more information please contact: , Dashty Jamal
078 5603 2991, Karen Johnson 078 0489 1082
or Samera Ahmad 078 2842 4164 email: sarahp107@hotmail.com,
Karen.Johnson@btinternet.com,
d.jamal@ntlworld.com
POBOX1575,ILFORD IG1 3BZ ,LONDON,UK
Tel:0044 7856032991 ,
00447895636633, 0041787557786, 004799387599,
003584404464905
www.csdiraq.com
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