Demand the immediate release of Iraqi Kurdish refugees from detention

On the 7th April 2010 a mass deportation flight to Iraqi Kurdistan did not take off as scheduled.  Media reports from Kurdistan at the time suggested this was because the KRG had refused to accept it following a series of demonstrations organized by IFIR in Kurdistan in Sulaymania prior to the deportation.  IFIR has also put pressure on the KRG Government through many sources.


Some of the refugees from the failed 7th April have been released from detention (itself unusual as usually when a flight is cancelled it is rescheduled for a few days later with the same people on) but many more are still held in detention centres. 

We request the support of all freedom loving people, Trade Unions, refugee and human rights organisations to demand the release of the remaining detainees, who are being held in detention for no reason.  Many of them have lived in the UK for more than ten years and have families and lives here.  Even by the Home Office’s own rules they should not be detaining people who are not at risk of deportation. 

The Kurdistan Regional Government has accepted more than 4000 people deported from Europe since 2005, and the Iraqi Government has accepted more than 300 people into Baghdad, after they were deported from their homes in Europe.

These deportations have regularly violated the human rights of those deported and have taken place without any regard for morality.   Without any human principles or respect even for their own laws the British authorities have abused the detainees in the following ways: used handcuffs, anesthetic injections, beatings and racist humiliation.  On several occasions they have used military flights or cargo planes as though the refugees were war criminals.  We also note that prior to being deported, many detainees have been imprisoned in detention centres for as long as two years. 

In addition, according to media reports and evidence collected by the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, many of those who have been deported are now living in hiding, in fear of the persecution they originally left Iraq to flee.   Some have been assassinated.  Others, such as Hussein Ali of Suleymania, have committed suicide only days after being deported.  Others, such as Kadir Saleh have been kidnapped and killed.  Others have had mental breakdowns.  Many have had to leave the country and become refugees again.

Please sign this statement, condemning the continued detention of Iraqi refugees and demanding they be released immediately.

International Federation of Iraqi Refugees_IFIR

 

Name

Home office Reference

Years living in the UK

Detention centre name/ from

How long detained

1.      Saman Hussian Nadir

M1049697

9 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

5 month

2.      Mohammed Hussan Ali

A1218202

7 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

4 month

3.      Ali Abdullah Jalal

A1180264

7 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

6 month

4.      Siamand Ahmad Yousef

Y1032406

9 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

5 weeks

5.      Salih Tariq Mohammed

M 1088990

10 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

2  month

6.      Mohammed Salah Goban

G1023248

10 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

2  month

7.      Sirwan Ali Abulkadir

A1191081

8 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

7 weeks

8.      Bashar Raad Fahmi

ASC/2454019

2 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

1 month

9.      Hiwa M Faraj

 

H1109626

7 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

1 month

10.  Sarwar Osman

 

S1317379

6 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

3 month

11.  Hashiar Ibrahim

 

J1116015

5 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

5 month

12.  Dara Esmail

 

E1044948

7 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

5 month

13.  Alan Ahmed Saleh

S1299365

3 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

1 month

14.  Roamy Mahmod

 

M1198544

7 Years

Lindholme IRC/Iraqi

5 month

15.  Ahmed Hussein Saeed

H1057059

9 Years

Oakington IRC/Iraqi

5 month

16.  Woshhiar Mustafa Marof

M1265107

6 years

Brook House/Iraqi

3 month

17.  Dilovan Mohammed

DEU/1347248

6 years

Brook House/Iraqi

6 month

18.  Salah Rofiq

 

H1103854

8 Years

Brook House/Iraqi

3 month

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19.  Masoud MohammeD Pirout

P1121683

7 Years

Brook House/Iraqi

 

20.  Khalld Hussein

 

H1061775

6 years

Brook House/Iraqi

 

21.  Nashwan Mushkti Nasar

N1094750

10 years

Brook House/Iraqi

 

22.  Bezhar Ramazan

 

R1177440

7 month

Brook House/Iraqi

 

23.  Bahaddin Saeed

 

B1075562

 

Dungewel House/IRC Glasgow

 

24.  Emn Omar Hamarashed

H1198309

 

Dungewel House/IRC Glasgow

 

25.  Mariwan Saleh Mohamad

M1251579

7 Years

Dungewel House/IRC Glasgow

7 weeks

26.  Hemn Osman

H1028152

10 Years

Dungewel House/IRC Glasgow

1 month

27.  Betsun Mohammad

M 1103976

11 years

Dungewel House/IRC Glasgow

1 month

28.  Salam Abdullah Hama Amin

A1213105

6 Years

Brook House/Iraqi

2 month

29.  Bahaddin Saeed Darwigh

B 1075562

9 Years

Dungewel House/IRC Glasgow

7 weeks

30.  Farhad Zobair

Z1008612

10 years

 

7 weeks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We, the undersigned, demand the release of the thirty Iraqi refugees detained in Oakington, Linholme, Brook House and Dungaeval detention centres.  

 

Name                 Name                                     Organization                                                  Signature

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return this petition to: PO Box 1575 Ilford IG1 3BZ