IFIR-Eng The International Federation of Iraqi 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 …

Mr Osman Mohammed Faraj told IFIR that he had been taken from Harmondsworth detention centre in handcuffs to Heathrow airport and placed aboard a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul. Mr Faraj complained about pains in his Kidney as he was placed on the plane. The security guards however, ignored him …

17 August 2022 IFIR press release: Kurdish Refugee transferred to single room ready for forcible deportation to Baghdad

The United Nations has designated June 20 as the World Refugee Day since 1951. We are approaching World Refugee Day this year at a time when human society is going through a dangerous and difficult era. The world is in a state of turmoil. Economic and financial crises, war, militarism, …

Our struggle to stop this brutal and racist policy, continues! Our fight to stop transferring refugees to Rwanda, continues!

IFIR demonstrated with other refugee rights organisations outside the Rwandan High Commission against the Rwandan government’s shameful deal to accept deportations from the UK. The deportation flight to Rwanda scheduled for 14th June must be stopped.

30 MAY 2022 Dear representative of refugee organizations and  Human right activists!   On behalf of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) and the people detained in Harmondsworth,brockhouse and Colnbrook detention centres, I would like to thank everyone who came out today to oppose the planned deportation of Iraqi Kurds, some of whom …

To: UNHCR in Geneva, European Court of Human Rights Detention and planned removal of Kurdish asylum seekers flight to Erbil, Northern Iraq Date: 26 May 2022 Dear Sir Madam We are writing to register a formal complaint against the UK Border Agency with the UNHCR and European Court of Human …

Zaki Chalabi, a political refugee and PKK supporter, was shot and wounded in Sulaymaniyah on Tuesday evening. He died on Wednesday evening from wounds sustained in Tuesday’s gun attack. Unidentified individuals on a motorcycle fired at least four times at the Deniz restaurant in the Bakhtiari area on Tuesday night, …

A demonstration was held today (8 March 2022) in front of the KRG Office in London to mark International Women’s Day. The demands of the demonstration were: Killing women under the pretext of “honor” is a crime and the perpetrators must face the harshest punishment The Polygamy Law of the …