Mr Osman Mohammed Faraj told IFIR that he had been taken from Harmondsworth detention centre in handcuffs to Heathrow airport and placed aboard a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul.
Mr Faraj complained about pains in his Kidney as he was placed on the plane. The security guards however, ignored him and bound leather straps around his body. Mr Faraj screamed in pain and called for help in Turkish. As a result he was removed from the plane and returned to the detention centre.
17 August 2022
IFIR press release:
Kurdish Refugee transferred to single room ready for forcible deportation to Baghdad
The United Nations has designated June 20 as the World Refugee Day since 1951. We are approaching World Refugee Day this year at a time when human society is going through a dangerous and difficult era. The world is in a state of turmoil. Economic and financial crises, war, militarism, terrorism, racism, the rise of nationalism, religious fanaticism, repression, tyranny, discrimination, destruction, unemployment, poverty, and homelessness have driven a substantial portion of the world’s population to migrate and seek safe refuge. Imperialist states and forces are engaged in a fierce battle to re-divide the world and expand their domains of influence, fictitious profits, and capital accumulation. They are prepared to cause huge tragedies to humanity and subject the planet to nuclear and biological warfare to achieve their goal.
Our struggle to stop this brutal and racist policy, continues!
Our fight to stop transferring refugees to Rwanda, continues!
IFIR demonstrated with other refugee rights organisations outside the Rwandan High Commission against the Rwandan government’s shameful deal to accept deportations from the UK. The deportation flight to Rwanda scheduled for 14th June must be stopped.
30 MAY 2022
Dear representative of refugee organizations and
Human right activists!
On behalf of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) and the people detained in Harmondsworth,brockhouse and Colnbrook detention centres, I would like to thank everyone who came out today to oppose the planned deportation of Iraqi Kurds, some of whom have been in the UK for more than 20 years. These refugees are married with small children.
To: UNHCR in Geneva, European Court of Human Rights
Detention and planned removal of Kurdish asylum seekers flight to Erbil, Northern Iraq
Date: 26 May 2022
Dear Sir Madam
We are writing to register a formal complaint against the UK Border Agency with the UNHCR and European Court of Human Rights regarding the threatened forced deportation of Kurdish asylum seekers flight to Erbil on 31 May2022.
Zaki Chalabi, a political refugee and PKK supporter, was shot and wounded in Sulaymaniyah on Tuesday evening. He died on Wednesday evening from wounds sustained in Tuesday’s gun attack. Unidentified individuals on a motorcycle fired at least four times at the Deniz restaurant in the Bakhtiari area on Tuesday night, injuring Zaki Chalabi, the restaurant’s owner and the leader of the Mesopotamia Workers Organization.
A demonstration was held today (8 March 2022) in front of the KRG Office in London to mark International Women’s Day.
The demands of the demonstration were: Killing women under the pretext of “honor” is a crime and the perpetrators must face the harshest punishment
The Polygamy Law of the Kurdistan Parliament is disrespectful to women and must be abolished.
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