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INTERNATIONAL
FEDERATION OF
IRAQI REFUGEES
This is barbaric
behaviour
forced deportations to Iraq must stop now:
I am Dashti Jamal. I have today been
speaking with Hawar. He is one of the
Kurdish-Iraqi asylum seekers who was
deported this morning from UK to
Kurdistan-Iraq.
Hawar was taken to a centre ready for
deportation last night. He was alone in a
room, and the officers brought a paper that
they wanted him to sign to give his consent
to deportation. He refused. Four security
men were brought into the room; Hawar was
physically beaten and put into handcuffs.
He was pushed into a van with about 40 other
Kurdish Iraqi men, and driven to an airport.
At the airport, 15 of these people including
Hawar were separated from the others and
were forced onto an aeroplane. Once they
were secured, they were told that they were
going back to a safe environment, they would
be looked after, and they would be given a
house.
The plane had a stop-over, maybe at Cyprus,
where the men were forced to change from
their clothes in army uniform. The second
aeroplane took them to Arbil.
In Arbil they were seen by a GP and checked
in by KDP, the Political party that has
control in that area. Hawar was put on the
street with $100. This is not his city.
His city is Mosul. He is not safe in Mosul,
he is not safe in Arbil. What is he
expected to do?
We need people to join us to stop this
barbaric treatment of asylum seekers.
Please pass this message on to other people
who can support our campaign to stop
deportations to Iraq.
Dashty Jamal
20.11.05
d.jamal@ntlworld.com
Tel:0
7734704742
www.federasion.org |