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.
IFIR Press Release Appeal to stop the forcible deportation of Assan Yaba Assan six PM today (29 May)
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 six pm today.
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 make the dangerous journey across the sea to Europe. The daily tragedy of the refugees on the borders of Europe is a direct consequence of the policy of closing borders to people whose homes have been turned into a battlefield of civil war, unrest and insecurity. The disaster facing refugees places a tremendous responsibility upon European governments. Whilst the UK and Europe talk about human rights they have provided no realistic solution to prevent the wave of refugees seeking safety in Europe.
19 May2017
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 is being kept at St.George’s hospital in London.
Awat was 29 years old. According to his cousin, he came to the UK as a refugee in 2006 when he was under 18, and was granted temporary permission to stay. However, after he came of age his permission was not renewed and he remained in the country without official “leave to remain”.
Home Office is trying to deport dozens of refugees to Iraq, with at least 30 people currently held in detention centres awaiting forced removal. But instead of using high-profile charter flights, the Home Office is now turning to a handful of major airlines to take Iraqi deportees as scheduled passengers: Royal Jordanian, Turkish Airlines, and Qatar Airways. Strong resistance by deportees and supporters may yet win out though, and several flights have been cancelled in the last week.