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On Tuesday 16th May Awat Ahmad, a Kurdish asylum seeker, lost his life at his work place for unknown reasons. The place of his death is still closed and Awat’s body was being kept at St. George’s hospital in London and later through the help of IFIR their bodies have been sent …

On world refugee day, 20-06-2017, we call on all freedom loving people and organisations defending the rights of refugees to stand up against the terrible conditions that refugees face are facing across Europe.  Let us look at the factors causing people to flee their homes and become refugees. Today’s world …

  Haram Kalaf is currently being held in a vans at Heathrow airport awaiting being put on a Royal Jordanian Airline flight via Amen to Bahgdad..  The flight is scheduled to leave at five pm today. Haram is from Kirkuk and has been living in the UK for 10 years. Haram’s partner …

Last night once again Islamic Terrorists blinded by hate and prejudice have carried out a horrific attack on the people of London killing 7 people and  injuring a further 50 people. This is the third terror attack to happen in the UK in the last three months.

Rekawt and Samir are currently being held in separate vans n at Heathrow airport awaiting being put on a Turkish airline flight via Istanbul to Baghdad.  The flight is scheduled to leave at six pm today. Rekawt Omar from Kirkuk has been living in the UK for 8 years.

29 May 2017Assan was woken up at six am this morning (29 May) and moved to a single cell.  He was then moved to the airport.  He is currently in a van at Heathrow airport awaiting being put on a Turkish airline flight via Istanbul to Baghdad.  The flight is scheduled to leave at …

Yesterday (22 May) at 10:30 pm a suicide bomber attacked the Ariana Grand concert, which was full of children and teenagers. At the time of writing this report 22 people have died and 59 injured.

At the second day of the Annual Public and Commercial Service Union Conference, held in Brighton attended by over 700 members, out of 200,000,  from across the UK, delegates voted unanimously in favour of stopping the forced deportation of Iraqi refugees back to Iraq.

We call on all trade unions to join our campaign to stop deportations to Iraq!  The UK government has arrested more than 30 Kurdish and Iraqi people since 1 April.  This is all taking place at a time when Iraq is being plagued by war and violence, which is forcing so many to …