[matilda] Sheffield Angle ! first failed Iraqi asylum

[sheffjeff]

Just like to put a local angle on this story
Yesterday at the R and AS focus group we heard that their have bee 40 
Iraqi's evicted and debenefitted in Sheffield last week and 25 more are 
planned for this week (irrespective of if they have signed section 4).This 
is from just one Housing provider others will probably be doing the same. 
Many who have been sofa surfing for months are now running out of sofas to 
surf as the accommodation stock within the Kurdish community is reduced. One 
house that was evicted was home to 15 Kurds!
Not sure how this will work out on the streets this winter
If you can make the meeting and show some solidarity please do

SheffJeff




Hello everybody, some of you might have heard about this....


The first failed Iraqi asylum seekers were forcibly removed from Britain
yesterday and flown out on a military transport plane. Fifteen men, all
from the northern Kurdish region, were put on board an aircraft in the
early hours. Another 5,000 Iraqi asylum seekers are thought to be awaiting
decisions on whether they will also be sent back.
One of those expelled yesterday, Hawar Ismail, told a UK-based refugee
group he had been "beaten" after resisting removal. All those being
expelled were subsequently handcuffed, he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1647113,00.html

kurdisch irakis in Sheffield are threatened to be treated like this...and
there is an urgent meeting about it tomorrow by caddi, I'd like to invite
you to (see below)