Refugee Issues

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: …

  See below details: 3 people on 9 May, 1 person 10 May, 2 people 26 May

IFIR press release 05 May 2017 Iraqi Refugee assaulted on Turkish airline flight 4 May

Assan Yaba Assan from Mosul was not deported yesterday  Following IFIR’s appeal on the 5 May for people to call Turkish airlines demanding that they do not deport Assan.  Assan’s 6 May deportation ticket was cancelled.  IFIR would like to thank everyone who called Turkish airlines with special thanks to Corporate Watch and …

30 April IFIR Press release:Iraq MPs say no more deportations to Iraq Over 100 members of the Iraqi Parliament will sign a resolution to urge the federal governemnt of Iraq to refuse to accept the forced deportation of Iraqis from the countries they seek refuge in. It comes as over 50 …

  We call on all Freedom-loving people, refugee and human rights organisatons, labour groups and trade union organisations to join our campaign to stop deportations to Iraq.

European Court of Human Rights Council of Europe Date: 24/04/2017 I am writing this letter on behalf of Iraqi’s and Kurdish refugees currently detained in UK detention centres.  As you are aware more than 50 Iraqi’s and Kurdish people have been arrested and are being held in different detention centres …

I am writing on behalf of the Iraqi and Kurdish community to complain about Royal Jordanian airlines allowing their charter flights to be used by the British state to forcibly deport people back to Iraq.

Around 30 asylum seekers have reportedly been rounded up and detained in facilities across the UK ahead of mass deportation plans. And an alleged series of recent events, including the gagging and confinement of one asylum seeker in an aeroplane toilet, makes this scenario even more concerning.

R t  Hon Amber Rudd MP Home Office 2 Marsham Street  London SW1P 4DF   Amber Rudd    Date:13/04/2017  The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) called a demonstration outside the Home Office on Thursday 13th April to protest at the arrest of more than 30 Iraqi and Kurdish asylum seekers.  We were …