[noborders-brum] Urgent: 40+ Asylum Seekers to be Deported Back to Iraq on 5 Sep

[Shiar]

40+ Iraqi Kurds, locked up in Colnbrook detention centre near Heathrow,
have received letters from the Home Office saying they will be forcefully
removed to Northern Iraq on 5th September, 2006. Unconfirmed reports have
it that there will be a 'charter flight from Stanstead airport on that
day.

The letters, in Kurdish, said that, when returned, deportees will receive
a $100 'assistance as well as accommodation for only one month. The faild
Iraqi asylum seekers had been asked to sign 'voluntary return' agreements
with the IOM but had refused to do so. There is also unconfirmed news that
other Iraqis will be deported tomorrow, August 28th.

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Shiar