UKBA: Changes to policy on judicial review challenges

From next Monday 3rd August if your claim for asylum has been refused and removal directions set an application for a Judicial Review (JR) made and granted; may/will not be sufficient to stay the removal, you will have to seek an injunction enforcing the JR. Further restrictions coming into force on the same day, where a JR has been refused you will not be able to apply for a second JR with in three months.

If the information above will have a bearing on your case, you need to seek good legal advice immediately.

Full details of the changes can be viewed here:
UKBA Press Release 20th July 2009
 http://tinyurl.com/lck4am

Release Hassan Ahmad and grant him asylum in the UK

Hassan is an active member of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR). He is currently detained in Doncaster IRC and awaiting deportation. Hassan has been a member of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI ) since 1993. WCPI is a banned organisation in Iraq and Kurdistan. Its members both at home and abroad are persecuted by the Kurdish and Iraq security forces. Hassan's life will be in danger if he is deported back to the Kurdish area of Iraq. Hassan has lived in the UK for nine years during this time he has been an active campaigner for IFIR and helped many refugees integrate into the UK.

Before he left Iraq Hassan was a member of a theatre company in Iraq and performed in a number of plays in the town of Halabja and other towns across the Kurdish region. The theatre productions were often controversial and critical of both the Kurdish authorities and Islam which lead to Hassan being detained by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in 1997. Hassan was also threatened by the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan of Iraq- (IMIK), because of his theatre work, who shot at him. Hassan became well known as an actor, theatre worker and party member of the WCPI across the Kurdish region.

Hassan was forced to leave Iraq after trying to help a women friend (Sonia). Sonia's father tried to give her away to pay off his gambling debts. Hassan interceded and stopped her father from doing this. Sonia's father subsequently reported Hassan to IMIK who tried to shoot him. Sonia committed suicide

If Hassan is returned to the Kurdish region of Iraq he will be under threat from both the PUK and Sonia's family who believe he harmed the honour of their family when he stopped her father giving her away. Hassan has lived in the UK since 2001. He is unable to return to Kurdistan or anywhere else in Iraq for fear of his life and persecution. Please help us stop this deportation.

Please sign the petition:
 http://www.petitiononline.com/IFIRhass/petition.html

and please send support letters to:

Ministers of State for Borders and Immigration
3rd Floor, Peel Buildings,
2 Marsham St
London SW1 4DF
Fax: 020 8760 3132
Emails: UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk
 CITTO@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Remember to include Hassan's Home Office Ref: A1060342

Please cc to  ifir@hotmail.co.uk
International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR


Nigeria: 118 Arbitrary Killings by Security Forces
Human Rights Watch conducted on-the-ground research in Jos in the immediate aftermath of the violence and in February 2009 and found that while most of the deadly inter-communal clashes took place on November 28, the vast majority of killings by the police and military came on November 29, the day that the Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, issued a "shoot-on-sight" directive to the security forces. Human Rights Watch documented 118 cases of alleged arbitrary killings by the security forces that took place between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. on November 29 alone.
Full report: Human Rights Watch, July 20, 2009
 http://tinyurl.com/nenk36

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