Danish police have clashed with protesters as they moved to arrest a
group of 17 Iraqis who had taken refuge in a Copenhagen church
following the rejection of their asylum applications.
Between
fifty and fifty-five people were forcibly deported to Iraqi Kurdistan yesterday
afternoon on a specially chartered mass deportation flight, operated by Alitalia
airlines.
Following a vigorous campaign by his Hastings community, supported by the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees and Medical Justice, Akam Rasoul Ahmed has been taken off the mass deportation flight he was scheduled to be deported on.