{"id":455,"date":"2017-04-05T18:12:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/?p=455"},"modified":"2017-04-05T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:13:25","slug":"ifir-press-release-iraqi-asylum-seekers-refuse-interviews-by-iraqi-embassy-in-detention-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/2017\/04\/05\/ifir-press-release-iraqi-asylum-seekers-refuse-interviews-by-iraqi-embassy-in-detention-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"IFIR press release: Iraqi asylum seekers refuse interviews by Iraqi embassy in detention centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>5April 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Twelve Iraqi asylum seekers in Colnbrook detention centre contacted IFIR this morning they said we were called by an immigration officer into an interview with three Iraqi officials and one UKBA official, but we refused to meet the Iraqi officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mr B one of refugees said \u201cI told him you are my enemy I don\u2019t want to talk to you I am a victim of your war and violence in Iraq.\u00a0\u00a0I have lost all my family in Iraq I have nothing to say to you\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mr M said the UKBA official said to me \u201cwhy don\u2019t want to meet the Iraqi officials they have come to talk to you to try to trace your family in Iraq before you are forcibly deported\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Dashty Jamal Secretary of IFIR said\u201d This is unacceptable the UKBA has clearly made an agreement with the Iraqi Government and is making deals with the lives of these victims who are refugees.\u00a0\u00a0The UK Government are clearly seeking to legitimise their agreement with Iraqi Government.\u00a0\u00a0The UKBA want to avoid responsibility for this action by blaming the Iraq officials\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Dashty also said \u201cTheresa May with this inhuman rights policy wants to appease her racist supporters but does not want to take responsibility for what she has done in this shameful deal with the Iraqi Government. We call on all human rights organisations and freedom loving people to stand with us to stop this agreement and to cease this plan to forcibly deport Iraqi refugees\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">END: for more information please contact IFIR on 07720291516<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5April 2017 Twelve Iraqi asylum seekers in Colnbrook detention centre contacted IFIR this morning they said we were called by an immigration officer into an interview with three Iraqi officials and one UKBA official, but we refused to meet the Iraqi officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-home","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}