Information on Refugee Issues

IFIR is writing to inform all IFIR clients, deportees, humanitarian, refugee organizations, political parties, refugee relatives that Mr. Ari Jalal and Mr. Baxtyar Omer no longer work IFIR, as a consequence they have no eligibility or responsibility within IFIR anymore. IFIR understands that they have formed their own organization. Dashty …

16 January 2019 IFIR Press Release International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) was informed by Fareidun’s family that “Mr. Fareidun Afsaji who has been in Iraqi Kurdistan (Sulaymaniyah) has disappeared.  His family stated that Fareidun left Finland mid-December last year. His family last received a missed call from him on …

Sardar Omer Abdulla has been living in the UK for 19 years and has a son who is 7 years old. Sardar is currently being held in Colebrook detention centre, is on hunger strike alongside Aso Khder to protest at the conditions they are being held in.

IFIR press release:UKBA continue to deport Kurdish Asylum seekers to Baghdad.  UKBA threatening to deport Abdull Motalib Nouri who has lived in the UK for 18 years Abdul Motalib Noori is being forcibly returned to Iraq by Royal Jordanian Airlines at 5pm, 2nd December 2018.  Abdul has contacted IFIR from …

IFIR press release: Algerian detainee died in Harmondsworth detention centre yesterday Iraqi Kurdish detainees reported to IFIR that Mr Redouane died yesterday at 15:29, because of this all other detainees were locked in there rooms until the evening. 

Twenty Iraqi refugees currently detained in Colnbrook immigration detention centre are demanding they be released from conditions they describe as “worse than prison”. In a statement sent to the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees they say: “The Iraqi Embassy is collaborating with the Home Office to send people with strong …

Faraidon Khurshid  Iraqi  Kurdish Asylum Seekers from Kirkuk arrived in the UK 7 October 2010 (8 years). He is currently held in a Van with 6 Security guard  at Heathrow Airport ,He has been told that he will be  forcibly deported today on a  Royal Jordanian air line flight at …

On the night of Thursday 9 September 2018 34 people, mostly refugees  from Iraqi Kurdistan, died after their boat  sank in the Aegean Sea off the Karaburun peninsular in the Turkish province of Izmir.

UK Government continues to detain Iraqi Asylum seekers  The UK Government continues to threaten Iraqi and Kurdish nationals with forcible deportation and continues to detain them for long periods in detention centres. IFIR has received the following appeals from detainees held in Colnbrook & Harmondsworth,detention centres.

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees’ (IFIR) publishes its demands for World Refugee Day United Nations’ World Refugee Day has been held on 20 June every year since 2001, the 50th anniversary of the UN’s 1951 Refugee Convention. World Refugee Day commemorates the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of …