Source: International Federation of Iraqi Refugees and the Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq

As anti-government demonstrations continue across Iraq the UK Government plans to deport refugees back to Baghdad next week. More than 25 people, including one Christian, have been arrested, detained in detention centres across the country and have been given deportation tickets for a charter flight leaving on Wednesday 9th March.

 A statement from International Federation of Iraqi Refugees and the Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq says:

“in the whole of Iraq people are demonstrating against injustice, corruption, repression, unemployment and lack of basic services and the Iraqi and Kurdish governments are responding with violence and killing. And yet the UK Government, while it is saying how much it supports democracy and human rights in Libya, continues to support the corrupt governments in Iraq and Kurdistan, and now is deporting people, many of whom left to flee this same government violence, into the middle of it! It is a criminal hypocrisy and must be stopped.” 

more at http://www.ncadc.org.uk