More than 50 people gathered outside the Home Office in central London on Monday 26th October to demand the immediate release of Iraqi detainees who were deported to Baghdad two weeks ago, but were returned to detention after the Iraqi authorities refused to admit them.

Pictures at: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/440662.html 

Iraqi refugees locked up in Brook House and Colnbrook detention centres
are on hunger strike since Monday, 19th  October, to protest against their
inhumane treatment and  demand their immediate release. The hunger
strikers include some of those who were forcibly deported to Baghdad in
the first mass deportation to southern Iraq last week but were returned to
the UK after the Iraqi authorities refused to accept them, as well as some
who have just been given 'removal directions' to Iraqi Kurdistan (northern
Iraq) and could be deported any time in the next couple of weeks.

Many human rights organisations and NGOs, such as the UNHCR and Amnesty
International, have criticized the UK and other European governments for
deporting people to a war zone like Iraq, as this clearly puts their lives
in danger. Many more campaign groups, refugee organisations and MPs have
condemned the cynical move, but the Home Office isn't listening!

Having turned their country into a mess, the UK government is not only
deporting Iraqi refugees to face their possible death instead of
accommodating them, but is also locking up people indefinitely when it
fails to deport them.

Demonstrate on Monday 26th October, from 4.30 outside the Home Office to
demand the immediate release of the detainees and that deportations to
Iraq are stopped.

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