Dana Mhamed Abdula, an Iraqi Kurd, is currently on hunger strike in Colebrook Detention centre. Dana, a 34 year old father, has been living in the UK for 17 years and has 4 children here. He has been repeatedly refused refugee status. On Thursday morning, Dana stitched his mouth in protest against his treatment.
5 May 2017
Appeal to stop the forcible deportation of Assan Yaba Assan 6PM tomorrow 6 May.
Assan is threatened with forced deportation tomorrow, 6 May, at 18:00 from Heathrow Airport to Baghdad on a Turkish Airlines flight via Istanbul.
1 May is a day of international working class solidarity and unity. Workers around the world set aside their false religious and nationalist identities and come forward as a united class with a common future, against oppressive capitalist system and the barbarism it imposes on humanity. It is the day we stand up to oppression; discrimination; war; destruction; hunger and unemployment. It is the day in which we start to gather our forces and capabilities to overthrow the current system of inequality and oppression and build a free, equal and prosperous world.
The tragedy of refugees on the borders of Europe and in the Mediterranean Sea is a direct consequence of closing borders to people whose livelihoods and homes have been shattered by civil war, unrest and insecurity. The disaster facing refugees places a tremendous responsibility upon European governments. While the UK and other European governments talk about human rights, they have provided no realistic solution to the causes of the current wave of displacement and forced mass immigration. On the contrary, the UK government is detaining Iraqi refugees for indefinite periods under threat of forced deportation.The Home Office has already used force to deport many Iraqi refugees on Royal Jordanian Airlines, Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways flights.
11 April 2018
IFIR Press Release
This time last year 104 Iraqi MP’s signed a resolution against accepting forcibly Deported Iraqi Refugees from Europe following a campaign led by IFIR. At that time it was not enough to stop forcibly deported refugees being returned to Iraq. IFIR continued campaigning and today the Iraqi ministry of foreign affairs has introduced guidance avoiding the compulsory deportation of Iraqi refugees in European countries.
3th April2018
36 Iraqi refugees detained in Turkey need your help
I am writing on behalf of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR). IFIR aims to give essential help to Iraqi refugees experiencing difficulties. IFIR has been informed that 36 Iraqi nationals were arrested and detained two weeks ago in Turkey/Edirne.
PCS in MHCLG is proud to support International Women’s Day – Today Thursday 8th March. The theme this year is #PressforProgress.