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

“You are to be removed to the KRG no sooner than 72 Hours from the date of this notice and no longer than 20 days from the date of this notice”.

One of the asylum seekers wife is eight months pregnant, for another this is the second time they have been forcibly deported from the UK. 

We ask all human, labour and refugee rights and anti-war organisations to support the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees and the Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq by writing protest letters to the Home office, Royal Jordanian Airline and the Kurdish Regional Government making the following demands:

Please call on the UK Home Office to:

1.    Abolish the policy of deporting asylum seekers; allow all Kurdish asylum seekers to have legal representatives to defend their rights.

2.    Stop the inhuman policy of making Kurdish Iraqi asylum seekers destitute.

3.     Release all Iraqis currently held in detention centers.

Please Call on Royal Jordanian Airline:

1.  Not to accept any more bookings from the UK Home Office Office for the purpose of deporting Iraqi Kurdish asylum Seekers

      2. Cancel all  previous bookings from the Home Office for the purpose of deporting Iraqi Kurdish asylum   Seekers immediately;

     3. If Royal Jordanian continue to deport Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers say you will not use Royal Jordanian Airlines.

Royal Jordanian Airlines, Space One, 1 Beadon Rd, Hammersmith, London W6 OEA. fax: 0208 748 5251 email:  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please call on the Kurdish regional Government office in UK to:

1. Suspend immediately all agreements with any European countries to accept forcibly returned Kurdish asylum seekers
2. Do not accept any forcibly returned asylum seekers or refugees from any country

3. Stop Using Arbil airport to accept forcibly returned European asylum seekers.
4. Ask the UN to put pressure on international community to recognize the right of asylum for Kurdish asylum seekers.

Please send copies of letters to the address below

KRG Address: Winchester House,8^th Floor,old Marylebone Road 269-259, London NW1 5RA

and copy to IFIR & csdiraq , PO Box1575, Ilford, IG1 3BZ, London, email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and sarah parker:   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Names of those detained listed below:

Doncaster:

1-Mohamad Majid

Glasgow:

1-abdulla Rasol

2-Amang Ali

Colnbrook:

1-Shwan Asan

2-Soran Hamza Ebrihim

Cambridge:

1-Kamaran Omer Ali

2-warzer Ahmad Muhamad

4-Hewa Osman Muhamad

5-pagow Abdulah

6-Aram Muhamad Ali

7-Krim Ezadin

8-Shamal Jalal

9-Govan Mustafa

10-Esmil Muhamad

11-Hrem Jabar

Campsfield house:

1-Dana Yasin Raza

2-Zryan Abdula  (from Kurdistan he is married and  his wife is 8 months pregnant)

3-Srhang Ahmad

4-Yosif Abubaker

5-Twana Hamza

6-Jasim Ahmad

7-Almas Hassan

8-Faraedon Mstafa

9-Rebwar Muhamad

10-Dana Yasen

11-Soran Hamed

12-Hazhar Shamo (He was deported in February 2007 but returned to the UK on 05 June 2008)

13-Makwan Aziz

Dover:

1-Fakhrdeen Ali

2-Nawaz Baker

3-Karmand Khadir Hassan

4-Khalid Abdullah

International Federation of Iraqi Refugees

CSDIRAQ