{"id":834,"date":"2020-02-09T18:33:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/?p=834"},"modified":"2020-02-09T18:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T18:33:19","slug":"12-people-die-as-boat-sinks-off-greek-island-of-paxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/2020\/02\/09\/12-people-die-as-boat-sinks-off-greek-island-of-paxi\/","title":{"rendered":"12 people die as boat sinks off Greek island of Paxi\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR was contacted by the concerned families who fear that their family members may have drowned. They say they spoke to their family members one hour before they boarded a boat on the 11 January 2020, which was heading for the Italian coast.\u00a0 Unfortunately the boat ran into trouble by Paxi a Greek island. The boat reported to have more than 50 people on board took on water and sank near Paxi. We understand that six coast guard patrol boats, two navy helicopters and four passing cargo ships have been engaged in the continuing rescue of the refugees. We have been informed that the Greek Coast Guard has rescued 21 people and found a further 12 bodies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The families of the refugees are very worried they last spoke to their children one hour before the boat left Greece and despite trying to call them they have had no response.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Please see below the names we have been given with attached photographs.\u00a0 Please let us know as soon as possible if those named below have been rescued or their bodies have been found.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Name\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Date of Birth \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 country<\/span><\/h3>\n

1-Sarkar Rahman Baram\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 20-03-1997 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Iraq-Sulymaneyah<\/span><\/h3>\n

2-Sherwa Ahmad Abdulqader \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 04-12-1996 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Iraq-Sulymaneyah<\/span><\/h3>\n

3-Dyari Sabir Pirot \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 15-12-1996 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Iraq-Sulymaneyah<\/span><\/h3>\n

4-Shwana Hama Ameen Beirut\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 04-04-1980 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Iraq-Sulymaneyah<\/span><\/h3>\n

5-Pshtewan Bakir Xder \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Iraq-Sulymaneyah<\/span><\/h3>\n

6-Kosrat Abdullah Baraim\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 01-01-1993 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Iraq-Sulymaneyah<\/span><\/h3>\n

7-Zanko Lokamn Omer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Iraq-Sulymaneyah<\/span><\/h3>\n

8-Ahmad Omer Muhamad \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1995 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Iraq-Sulymaneyah<\/span><\/h3>\n

9-Aras Ali Mohamed\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 02-12-1989 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Iraq-Sulymaneyah<\/span><\/h3>\n

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CC: Human and refugee rights organizations\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

The Background to IFIR.<\/span><\/h3>\n
    \n
  • \n

    IFIR is a free, humanitarian and International organization defending the universal rights of refugees, realizing the rightful protests of the refugees. <\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 IFIR has a history of pride. Since its founding in 1992, in countries like Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Britain, Switzerland, Canada, Australia and Turkey <\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 IFIR was on the frontline defending the humanitarian values, refugee rights. It has worked for equal rights and equal freedom of the individuals. It fought against discrimination and building borders and was for unconditional right of free movement.<\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 IFIR tries to continuously broaden the human rights of the Kurdish and Iraqi refugees and that everyone has a fair share in a free, safe and a better life.\u2022 IFIR has helped thousands of people, protecting their rights and dignity, stopping forcible deportation. <\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 IFIR is working to enable the acceptance of refugees from the above mentioned countries, initiating hundreds of campaigns to collect international supports for stopping the process of refugee deportation.<\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 In its efforts, IFIR has helped many refugees to gain asylum and provided them with their basic needs in the countries in which they live without considering any religious, political, ethnic and nationalistic ideologies and motives.<\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 Defending the right of refugees, IFIR has organized many demonstrations, protests and meetings in the European parliament, presented petitions to the responsible sections in the European countries.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  • \n

    Rebwar Arif was the official secretary of IFIR until 2007 he has a rich history of supporting refugees. Thereafter at the first congress of IFIR the representatives of\u00a0 IFIR from different countries appointed Dashty Jamal as secretary of IFIR.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  • \n

    In February 2012 the IFIR founded a branch in Kurdistan in presence of Dashty Jamal and the deportees.<\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 The IFIR\u2019s headquarters is based in Britain and continues to defend refugee rights. <\/span>
    \n<\/span>In recent years:<\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 IFIR has freed many imprisoned refugees.<\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 IFIR has returned the body of many drowned refugees in the Mediterranean Sea.<\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 IFIR searched for many missing refugees.<\/span>
    \n<\/span>\u2022 IFIR has helped many women and children who were victims of domestic violence and fought for them to gain the right of asylum.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
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    IFIR has constantly supported and given help to women and children placed in displacement camps in Iraq and Kurdistan.<\/span><\/p>\n

    <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    IFIR will continue working independently from any political party promoting humanitarian aims.<\/span><\/h3>\n


    \n<\/span>International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

    15\/01\/2020<\/span>
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    The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR was contacted by the concerned families who fear that their family members may have drowned. They say they spoke to their family members one hour before they boarded a boat on the 11 January 2020, which was heading for the Italian coast.\u00a0 Unfortunately the boat ran into trouble by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","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\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}