IFIR-Eng The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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, …

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: …

  See below details: 3 people on 9 May, 1 person 10 May, 2 people 26 May

IFIR press release 05 May 2017 Iraqi Refugee assaulted on Turkish airline flight 4 May

Assan Yaba Assan from Mosul was not deported yesterday  Following IFIR’s appeal on the 5 May for people to call Turkish airlines demanding that they do not deport Assan.  Assan’s 6 May deportation ticket was cancelled.  IFIR would like to thank everyone who called Turkish airlines with special thanks to Corporate Watch and …