London Coalition Against Poverty                                                   
                                                                                                            
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Dear President Talabani,
We are writing to request your government refuses to accept anymore forcible deportations from the UK and other European countries.
As you know there was a flight from the UK in July 2010, another two scheduled for September 1st and September 6th and more to come. The people on these flights have made a home for themselves in the UK. They are being forced back because of the UK Government’s xenophobic immigration policies that victimise Iraqi refugees. They should be allowed to live freely in the UK

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 they used handcuffs, anaesthetic injections, beatings and racist humiliation. In addition prior to being deported, they have been imprisoned in detention centres for as long as two years.

The Kurdistan Regional Government has confirmed it will no longer accept forcible deportations. This decision is receiving praise from progressive groups and freedom loving people here in the UK.

We are therefore writing to request you take a stand and make it clear you will not be party to the unjust and inhumane immigration policies of the European Governments, by legally committing your governments not to accept anymore deportations, by closing your airports to them, and by terminating the agreements with European Governments to accept them.
Regards
London Coalition Against Poverty