Refugee Issues

European Court of Human Rights Council of Europe Date: 24/04/2017 I am writing this letter on behalf of Iraqi’s and Kurdish refugees currently detained in UK detention centres.  As you are aware more than 50 Iraqi’s and Kurdish people have been arrested and are being held in different detention centres …

I am writing on behalf of the Iraqi and Kurdish community to complain about Royal Jordanian airlines allowing their charter flights to be used by the British state to forcibly deport people back to Iraq.

Around 30 asylum seekers have reportedly been rounded up and detained in facilities across the UK ahead of mass deportation plans. And an alleged series of recent events, including the gagging and confinement of one asylum seeker in an aeroplane toilet, makes this scenario even more concerning.

R t  Hon Amber Rudd MP Home Office 2 Marsham Street  London SW1P 4DF   Amber Rudd    Date:13/04/2017  The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) called a demonstration outside the Home Office on Thursday 13th April to protest at the arrest of more than 30 Iraqi and Kurdish asylum seekers.  We were …

It appears to be in preparation for a deportation flight. While Britain is still at war in Iraq, it insists that it’s safe to deport refugees to a war zone. Samir Mohammad, who has been in Britain for 17 years, is one of them.  He’s lived in Sheffield with his …

On Thursday 13th April, the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) held a picket in front of the Home Office in London.  The protest was against the arrest and detention of 30 Iraqi and Kurdish asylum seekers.  Those arrested have lived in the UK for as long as 17 years, and one …

10 April 2017  An Iraqi refugee is due to be deported this evening, as part of the first mass deportation to Iraq since 2011. Campaigners are condemning the action, and organising protests. Aras Ismail was taken from his cell this morning and informed that he would be deported later today. He …

from 5pm -7pm  at Home Office, 2 Marsham St, London, SW1P 4DF    (Closest Tube stations: Westminster; St James Park; Pimlico.  Closest Train stations: Victoria; Waterloo; Vauxhall) No deportations to Iraq!

5April 2017 Twelve Iraqi asylum seekers in Colnbrook detention centre contacted IFIR this morning they said we were called by an immigration officer into an interview with three Iraqi officials and one UKBA official, but we refused to meet the Iraqi officials.