More than fifty men from northern Iraq have been given deportation tickets telling them they will be removed to Erbil in the Kurdistan Regional Government controlled area in northern Iraq. The 50 are currently being held in immigration prisons in Heathrow, Gatwick and Doncaster. They told the detainees that they will be removed at 6pm tomorrow morning (17 March). The tickets state that they will be:
‘removed no sooner than 7 days and no later than 22 days from the date of this notice’.
‘removed no sooner than 7 days and no later than 22 days from the date of this notice’.
Serhan Omer who is currently being held in Tinsley House with 23 other Iraqi detainees said ‘this is the second time I have been removed to Iraq. I was deported on the 17/12/09 but was returned the same day with 12 others. I have been a resident in the UK for 5 years. If I am returned my life will be in danger, it feels like I am being given a death sentence tomorrow.’
Fwad Ali Moulod Salih currently held in Colnbrook with 15 other Iraqi detainees said ‘I have been living for 10 years in the UK without any criminal record. I make a special appeal to all freedom loving people in the UK to support my claim to remain in the UK, which I now think of as home.
Dashty Jamal of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees says:
‘It is a shame that even following the recent corrupt election held on the 7 March. That the UK Government still insists on trying to convince the British people that Iraq is safe, and that the war has brought democracy and security to Iraq. All the parties that stood in the 7 March election representing tribal, militia and nationalist parties do not have in their agenda any democracy or human rights. In the mean time Iraq continues to descend into sectarian violence and a cycle of killing. We are asking people to protest against these policies’
Fwad Ali Moulod Salih currently held in Colnbrook with 15 other Iraqi detainees said ‘I have been living for 10 years in the UK without any criminal record. I make a special appeal to all freedom loving people in the UK to support my claim to remain in the UK, which I now think of as home.
Dashty Jamal of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees says:
‘It is a shame that even following the recent corrupt election held on the 7 March. That the UK Government still insists on trying to convince the British people that Iraq is safe, and that the war has brought democracy and security to Iraq. All the parties that stood in the 7 March election representing tribal, militia and nationalist parties do not have in their agenda any democracy or human rights. In the mean time Iraq continues to descend into sectarian violence and a cycle of killing. We are asking people to protest against these policies’
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