Release Delshad Zorab and grant him asylum in the UK

On the morning of Friday February 13^th Delshad Namiq Zorab was taken from his home in Doncaster to a police station and then to Campsfield Detention Centre near Oxford. Many of you will have met Delshad: he has been an active campaigner for the right to asylum and was a good friend of Mohammad Hussain who sadly died last year. Now, locked in Campsfield Detention Centre, he fears that he will be forcibly deported to Iraqi Kurdistan where he has every reason to believe that his life would be in real danger. This is despite the fact that his appeal for asylum is still pending: Delshad should not – even under this Government’s asylum laws – be detained or deported.

17-2-2009 

PRESS RELEASE: 

Deportees talk of charter flight hell

Between fifty and fifty-five people were deported to Iraqi Kurdistan on the charter flight that left for Iraq on Monday morning and arrived in Erbil in on Tuesday morning

The flight appears to have been operated by a Czech company as the plane stopped for re-fuelling in the Czech Republic and there were apparently signs saying Czech Republic on the plane.

URGENT – DELSHAD NAMIQ ZORAB ARRESTED AND ABOUT TO BE REMOVED

Human rights campaigner Delshad Namiq, from Iraq and resident of Doncaster, has been detained in Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre, after being arrested on Friday 13^th February and has been told he will be forcibly deported to Iraq soon. 

Delshad Namiq (Date of Birth 1.7.56) came from Sewsenan, Sulaimaniyah.  Dellshad’s family was a political family who were persecuted for their political views. His brother Kamal was killed by the Baathists because he was a member of the Iraqi Communist Party.

Message of solidarity to the Close Campsfield Campaign from the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees gives its support and solidarity to the campaign against Campsfield and specifically the demonstration outside Campsfield on Saturday 31^st January.  We oppose the barbaric policies of this government, manifested in places such as Campsfield, and the continued intolerance towards asylum seekers.