Information on Refugee Issues

20 January 2024         “No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” European convention on human rights – Article 3 On 18 January 2024, the British parliament approved a controversial bill that would enable the country to deport refugees arriving in the UK to Rwanda. Refugees …

17 September 2022 IFIR press release: Kurdish Refugee after 22 years living with children is forcibly being deported to Baghdad Today, Mr Cardow Hussan Ali from Harmondsworth detention Centre contacted IFIR. Said ‘I am in a van with a security guard and I have been given a deportation order for …

Our Turkish representative reported to us that on 28 June, 42 refugees on the Greek border with Turkey were stripped naked, following arrest by Greek police. The Greek police confiscated all of the refugees belongings. This act of theft happened after the Greek Police interrogated the refugees leaving them confused …

International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) condemns the murder of teacher Samuel Paty.  Samuel was murdered yesterday evening (16 October) as he left the school close to Paris where he taught.  The terrorist murdered Samuel because in a lesson discussing freedom of speech,  Samuel showed the Children Charlie Hebdo cartoons …

After the killing  of Osman Kosa, an employee at the Turkish consulate working at the Iran desk of Turkey’s national spy agency on 17th July 2019 in the Huqqabaz restaurant in Arbil.The security forces of Arbil are besieging the Makhmour Camp of refugees for more than a month now. 

“fight for a socialist EU with a socialist platform for Equal citizenship forevery one”  Dashty Jamal speech at protest Defend Migrants Defend free movement 4 September 2019 The working class have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got.  United action of all leading civilised countries …

IFIR support children in refugee camps in Kurdistan  At 31 July 2019 IFIR Kurdistan Branch distributed shoes to refugee children at Arbat Camp in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. 290 children received shoes and slippers. 

On the late afternoon of Friday 26th April, Kurdish police forces in the City of Raniye in the Northern city of Kurdistan was alerted by the hotel “Bethoween” about an incident. The police found Mr Afsaji’s strangled body and pronounced him dead at the scene. This tragedy happened in a time that …

Antonio Guterres The Secretary of United Nations – Klaus Welle           The General Secretary of the European Union Parliament  An urgent letter on the dreadful life situation of the refugees in Turkey ,                                                                                                                                   Date: 16/04/2019  I am writing to complain about the conditions the Syrian and Iraqi refugees …

Avan had moved several times prior to her murder in Stoke in Trent to try and get away from her husband a failed asylum seeker.  Avan was found face down in her kitchen stabbed 33 times.   Dana Abdullah pleaded guilty to Avan’s murder and was given a life sentence.  The Judge said …