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No Borders press release, 21 June Update: blockade ended peacefully at 9pm with no arrests Anti-deportation campaigners are blockading Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres in a last-minute attempt to stop the forcible deportation of Iraqi refugees to Baghdad on a specially chartered flight scheduled to leave London this evening. 30 angry protesters from No Borders, [...]

Amidst ongoing repression of protest in the northern Iraq Kurdish Regional Government area, and United Nations fears over Iraq’s capacity to deal with mass returnees of Iraqi refugees from Syria, a campaign has been launched to oppose forcible returns of Iraqis from the UK. The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has issued a statement and [...]

As another round of EU-coordinated Iraqi refugee collective expulsions gets underway, the United Nations Refugee Agency has called for European governments to provide protection for Iraqi refugees. From the UNHCR press statement: UNHCR is very concerned by on-going forced returns of Iraqi citizens from Western European countries. On September 1st, a chartered flight with 61 [...]

31st August 2010, PRESS RELEASE Mass deportation flight to Baghdad leaving tomorrow morning A mass deportation charter flight will leave London early tomorrow morning forcibly deporting more than fifteen Iraqi and Kurdish refugees to Baghdad. Another is planned for the 6th September, deporting more than fifty people. Herman Osman, who is being held in Oakington detention [...]

Detainee support groups have been inundated with calls for help by Iraqi detainees given removal directions for 1 September and 6 September. Many have no legal representation. The first attempted charter flight to Baghdad from UK in October last year was sent back by the Iraqi authorities. Of the 40 deportees, only 8 were accepted, [...]

I haven’t been in Iraq since I was seventeen. I don’t even speak Arabic so I can’t stay in Baghdad but how am I going to get from there to Kirkuk? I have a three year old son here. The UK is my home.’ PRESS RELEASE, International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, 17th June 2010 Approximately [...]

Click here for email newsletter subscription options NCADC daily news, 9 June 2010 Deportation charter flights to Iraq The UN refugee agency cautions against European deportations to Iraq “Our position and advice to governments is that Iraqi asylum applicants originating from Iraq’s governorates of Baghdad, Diyala, Ninewa and Salah-al-Din, as well as from Kirkuk province, [...]

PRESS RELEASE from International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, 9th June 2010 Deportation flight leaves for Baghdad as more Iraqi refugees given deportation tickets for next week Approximately ten Iraqi refugees were removed to Baghdad early this morning on a deportation flight via Sweden. At least three people’s tickets were cancelled before the flight and were [...]

Press release from Stop Deportation network: Re: the scheduled deportation flight to Iraq on 9 June 2010 A letter from the government solicitors has asked High Court judges to facilitate a mass deportation flight to Baghdad, scheduled for Wednesday, by not considering last-minute Judicial Review applications by detainees due for deportation.

PRESS RELEASE from International Federation of Iraqi Refugees. 2 June 2010 Iraqi refugees given tickets for deportation flight to Baghdad for Wednesday 9th June. More than 100 Iraqis have been detained in London detention centres, some of whom have been given removal directions to Iraq by the UK Border Agency for Wednesday 9th June at [...]