Last night once again Islamic Terrorists blinded by hate and prejudice have carried out a horrific attack on the people of London killing 7 people and injuring a further 50 people. This is the third terror attack to happen in the UK in the last three months.
Read More »Appeal to stop the forcible deportation of Rekawt Omar and Samir Mohammed six PM today (03 June)
Rekawt and Samir are currently being held in separate vans n at Heathrow airport awaiting being put on a Turkish airline flight via Istanbul to Baghdad. The flight is scheduled to leave at six pm today. Rekawt Omar from Kirkuk has been living in the UK for 8 years.
Read More »IFIR Press Release Appeal to stop the forcible deportation of Assan Yaba Assan six PM today (29 May)
29 May 2017Assan was woken up at six am this morning (29 May) and moved to a single cell. He was then moved to the airport. He is currently in a van at Heathrow airport awaiting being put on a Turkish airline flight via Istanbul to Baghdad. The flight is scheduled to leave at …
Read More »International Federation of Iraqi Refugees condemns Manchester tragedy
Yesterday (22 May) at 10:30 pm a suicide bomber attacked the Ariana Grand concert, which was full of children and teenagers. At the time of writing this report 22 people have died and 59 injured.
Read More »PCS Conference Voted Against Forced Deportation to Iraq
At the second day of the Annual Public and Commercial Service Union Conference, held in Brighton attended by over 700 members, out of 200,000, from across the UK, delegates voted unanimously in favour of stopping the forced deportation of Iraqi refugees back to Iraq.
Read More »Urgent Appeal to PCS delegates at conference!
We call on all trade unions to join our campaign to stop deportations to Iraq! The UK government has arrested more than 30 Kurdish and Iraqi people since 1 April. This is all taking place at a time when Iraq is being plagued by war and violence, which is forcing so many to …
Read More »IFIR press release: The Home Office is responsible for the death of Awat Ahmad
19 May2017 On Tuesday 16th May Awat Ahmad, a kurdish asylum seeker, lost his life at his work place for unknown reasons. The place of his death is still closed and Awat’s body is being kept at St.George’s hospital in London. Awat was 29 years old. According to his cousin, …
Read More »Iraqi deportations: the airlines helping the Home Office deport refugees to war zones
Home Office is trying to deport dozens of refugees to Iraq, with at least 30 people currently held in detention centres awaiting forced removal. But instead of using high-profile charter flights, the Home Office is now turning to a handful of major airlines to take Iraqi deportees as scheduled passengers: …
Read More »9 May 2017 IFIR press release: UKBA is deporting 3 Iraqis by Turkish Airline to Baghdad
See below details: 3 people on 9 May, 1 person 10 May, 2 people 26 May
Read More »Iraqi Refugee assaulted on Turkish airline flight 4 May
IFIR press release 05 May 2017 Iraqi Refugee assaulted on Turkish airline flight 4 May
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