More than fifty-five people were
deported to the Kurdistan region of northern
Iraq
early on Thursday morning, leaving from
LutonAirport
and landing in Erbil International.
Approximately fifty men originally from northern
Iraq have been given
deportation tickets telling them they will be removed to the Kurdistan Regional
Government controlled area of northern Iraq. They are currently being held in immigration
prisons in Heathrow, Gatwick and Doncaster.
Ibrahim Ali Karim, an Iraqi refugee being held in Colnbrook detention
centre, tried to commit suicide last night when staff told him he was going to
be deported to Iraqi Kurdistan the next day.