Press Release 24 July 2008

UK Home office is responsible for the disappearance of Kadir Salih Abdullah

Kadir Salih Abdullah DOB 01.04.1964 arrived in the UK 29 October 2000.  He left a family of six children in Kurdistan.  After five years of fighting for asylum, not being able to work and being forced to rely on the charity of friends Kadir gave up the fight and signed voluntary return papers on 24 March 2005 through the IOM scheme.  Shortly after returning to Kurdistan Kadir was kidnapped  in front of his home in an area under the control of Patriotic of Union Kurdistan ( PUK).  His daughter was so distressed at his disappearance that she committed suicide. His five remaining boys  and family  have contacted IFIR to report his disappearance and asking for our support.     

Press Release 22 July 2008

Kurdish asylum seeker  forcibly deported to Bahgdad

Namak Ahmad father of Shawan Namek from Kirkuk reported to International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) that his son  Shawan Namek was forcibly deported at 1 pm on 14 July 2008, by military aircraft to Bahgdad.  Namak was contacted by the Iraqi authorites infrorming him they were holding his son at Bahdad airport until they were given identity papers for Shawan.  Namek made the dangerous journey from Kirkuk to Bahgdad only to be told by the Iraqi authorities that the papers were not sufficient, and they would not release Shawan.

To Refugee and humanist organisations, those who demand human rights and all the political parties: defend the right of asylum!

The British Home Office for the fifth time has decided to deport 64 Kurdish asylum seekers by force back to Kurdistan in the next 24hrs to 72 hrs. These asylum seekers are now held inside British prisons and detention camps, despite some of them having families and children.

9 June 2008

Media Release:

Forcible Deportation of Iraqi asylum seekers to Kurdish Regional Government on a charter
flight to take place between 72 hours and 20 days from the date of notice

Once again the UK Home office has started to arrest Iraqi asylum seekers, a large number of Iraqi asylum seekers are currently being held in detention centres across the UK.  IFIR has been informed by some of the asylum seekers that they have been given notices stating