<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Sarah Parker" <<A href="mailto:sarahp107@hotmail.com">sarahp107@hotmail.com</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">17 July 2006 01:28:32 BDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:ncadc@ncadc.org.uk">ncadc@ncadc.org.uk</A>, <A href="mailto:ncadc-north-west@ncadc.org.uk">ncadc-north-west@ncadc.org.uk</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Cc: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:SimpsonA@parliament.uk">SimpsonA@parliament.uk</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>Urgent: Iraqi Kurds in Hull to protest sackings and threatened removal to Iraq</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right
: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear friends,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please circulate this message and take whatever other action you can to publicise and build support for this demonstration over the next 6 days. These people's struggle shows exactly why the debate in the media and labour movement around an amnesty for irregular migrants needs to be turned into a real campaign against New Labour's policies and for public support for migrants' rights. The Iraqi Kurds in Hull are showing the way forward, please assist them if you can.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks very much,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In solidarity,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sarah Parker</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF IRAQI REFUGEES</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=
"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">PRESS RELEASE</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CALL FOR A DEMONSTRATION</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">against Home Office plans to resume deportations to Iraq</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Let Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers keep their jobs</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hundreds of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers in the city of Hull are being sacked from their jobs. Their employers have suddenly<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>told them: “You are<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>illegal in this country and<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>you should contact the Home Office”. These same Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers previously had permission to work and they worked for more than 3 or 4 years, and now they don’t know what to do. The Home Office has asked them to contact the IOM to go back to Iraq “voluntarily” when they have just settled in England. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Join our demo to stop the new policy against Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers. At least 7,000 Iraqi asylum seekers, many of whom have been settled in the UK for more than five years, face imminent removal and are now living in a climate of fear. In response, the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR), which has over 1,000 members among Iraqi asylum seekers, is supporting the asylum seekers’ demonstration in Hull. IFIR expects over
500 Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers and members of the IFIR to gather at Pearson Park at 12 noon on Saturday 22 July 2006 and then march to the BBC at 1 o’clock.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The asylum seekers urgently need your support: with your support this policy can be reversed. We are calling upon all of you to come and join us in our</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">demonstration in an effort to stop the deportation of thousands of Iraqi asylum seekers.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">IFIR is calling:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">•<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>For a halt to plans to deport Iraqi asylum seekers</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">•<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>For Iraqi asylum seekers to be granted leave to remain in Britain as victims of war</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">•<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>For the immediate release of all detained Iraqi asylum seekers</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">•<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>For Iraqi asylum seekers to be entitled to the same rights to work and benefits as other British residents</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; marg
in-left: 0px; ">Protests</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hull: BBC. 1pm - till late in the evening<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>on Saturday 22 July</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For further information, please contact :Hussan on 07746075312</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>