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UK: Kurdish asylum-seekers arrested
following daring escape
4.9.2010
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September
4, 2010
Oxfordshire, UK,— Last night, he was
in hospital with a suspected broken leg and deep
cuts that he sustained scaling the fence. A
spokesman for Thames Valley Police said: "We can
confirm that we received a report at approximately
10.30pm [on Thursday] that a man had escaped from
Campsfield detention centre. We understand that the
man has now been found."
The two men, both ethnic Kurds, were due to be flown
to the Iraqi capital on Monday. The British
Government has recently begun flying failed Kurdish
asylum-seekers to Baghdad rather than the
semi-autonomous Kurdish area of northern Iraq,
because the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
refuses to accept anyone who has been brought under
duress.
The UK Border Agency tried to remove Mr Saeed to
Kurdistan five months ago but he was immediately
sent back to Britain after he confirmed to Kurdish
airport officials that he had been repatriated
against his will. |
The men escaped from Campsfield House detention
centre at Kidlington, Oxfordshire. Photo: The
Independent. |
Fifteen Iraqi refugees
have been flown to Baghdad this month, of which
several were Kurds. British officials tried to send
their flight on to Kurdistan but were told by the
KRG that this was not acceptable.
A spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Deportations
to Iraq told The Independent that British
authorities now simply left Kurdish refugees in
Baghdad with $100 and a hotel room for the night,
and instructed them to make their own way back home
to Kurdistan from there.
Mr Saeed has lived in Britain for nine years but has
been detained for the past 10 months. A friend
claimed he had "done nothing wrong here".
"He is running away from tribal violence. They tried
to send him back before but the government over
there wouldn't accept him into the country. He is
desperate not to go back," added the friend, who
asked not to be named.
According to the International Federation of Iraqi
Refugees (IFIR), at least 50 more Iraqis are marked
down for removal to Baghdad on Monday. The group is
leading a campaign to stop all deportations to Iraq
while the security and political situation there
remains uncertain.
Dashty Jamal, the secretary of the IFIR, said:
"These deportations must be stopped. There is a
campaign in Iraq of politicians, writers,
journalists and many freedom-loving people [who]
condemn this collusion,www.ekurd.netbetween
the puppet militia running Iraq and the British
Government, to send back people who were victims of
the violence that continues to devastate the
country. We call on people in Britain to do the
same."
David Wood, the head of criminality and detention
services at the UK Border Agency, said: "A detainee
escaped from Campsfield immigration removal centre
on Thursday evening. He has now been recaptured and
is back in detention."
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