Deare Hamanajam a Liverpool/Iraqi Kurd (8 years residency in the city) is currently detained in Colnbrook IRC and has been served with *open ended removal directions and told that he will be removed by a 'specially chartered flight' to KRG/Iraq.
Deare has not and will not be told the actual date of his removal or the time or which airport, or which carrier, only that it will take place no later than Wednesday 21st January 2009!
Deare came to the UK as an asylum seeker in 2000, having fled Iraq after being a political prisoner there for three years. The authorities in Iraq destroyed his home and everything he had. On Tuesday 23rd December 2008, when he went to sign at the Liverpool Home Office, he was 'Captured' by security, told that his fresh Asylum claim/reconsideration had failed, and, without even being given a chance to go back to his flat and get any of his belongings, was taken to Pennine House Short Term Holding Centre @ Manchester Airport. At 07.30 the following morning, he was transported to Dungavel IRC in Scotland. Last Saturday he was moved to Colnbrook IRC.
In June 2001, Deare obtained a UK work permit and has worked for the last 7 and a half years. He has studied, obtained qualifications in English and business skills and has attended numerous training courses. He has been employed by REMISUS for three and a half years during which time he has helped hundreds of refugees in the local community here in Liverpool.
He has made a valuable contribution to Liverpool society during his stay here. Yet the Home Office has rubbished his contribution to the welfare of the many Liverpool residents that have come in contact with Deare. They say that 8 years residency, your ties to the community, your character, conduct and employment, compassionate circumstances; 'are not compelling reasons to justify allowing you to remain in the UK'.
Deare has made a completely new life for himself in the UK. If deported, he will simply be dumped at an airport in northern Iraq, a country where he no longer has any family or any connections, and where he was imprisoned the last time he was there. This may well put his very life and well-being at risk. He is currently on medication for depression at Dungavel because of the trauma he has been through over the last week and the prospect of further trauma he will face if actually deported.
Friends of Deare Hamanajam
We are now organising a full Anti-Deportation campaign on behalf of Deare, which will include a petition signed by all of his colleagues and the hundreds of people he has helped in the local community. We are also approaching the media with details about his circumstances.
Though the main activity of the Campaign will be in Liverpool the campaign is asking for nation wide support as Deare will not be the only UK Iraqi/Kurd on this 'Ethnic Charter Flight'. If you know of any other UK Iraqi/Kurds served with the same removal directions, please help them campaign against their removal.
Please send urgent faxes/emails immediately to Rt. Hon Jacqui Smith, MP, Secretary of State for the Home Office, requesting that Deare Hamanajam, should not be removed from the UK. Please use the 'model letter' DeareHamanajamJS.doc attached or write your own version. If you do so, please remember to include HO ref: H1036945 /2.
Fax: 020 8760 3132 / + 44 20 8760 3132 if you are faxing from outside UK)
Emails:
UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk
"CIT - Treat Official"
Please let the campaign know of any emails/faxes sent:
Friends of Deare Hamanajam
C/o David.Sakho@remisus.org.uk
*"You are to be removed to the KRG no sooner than 72 hours from the date of this notice, and no longer than 24 days from this notice", "you are to be removed on a specially chartered flight", served on the 29th December 2008.
The Home Office are now in the process of rounding up detaining up to 60 other Iraqi/Kurds to make sure this charter is full.
Other UK Iraqi/Kurds have been rounded up over the last 10 days, they have all been served with 'open ended removal directions', though the date of notification is later than those for Deare, it is expected that they will all be put on the same 'Ethnic Charter Flight' on which ever day it leaves the UK.
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Friends of Deare Hamanajam
Deare came to the UK as an asylum seeker in 2000, having fled Iraq after being a political prisoner there for three years. The authorities in Iraq destroyed his home and everything he had. On Tuesday 23rd December 2008, when he went to sign at the Liverpool Home Office, he was 'Captured' by security, told that his fresh Asylum claim/reconsideration had failed, and, without even being given a chance to go back to his flat and get any of his belongings, was taken to Pennine House Short Term Holding Centre @ Manchester Airport. At 07.30 the following morning, he was transported to Dungavel IRC in Scotland. Last Saturday he was moved to Colnbrook IRC.
In June 2001, Deare obtained a UK work permit and has worked for the last 7 and a half years. He has studied, obtained qualifications in English and business skills and has attended numerous training courses. He has been employed by REMISUS for three and a half years during which time he has helped hundreds of refugees in the local community here in Liverpool.
He has made a valuable contribution to Liverpool society during his stay here. Yet the Home Office has rubbished his contribution to the welfare of the many Liverpool residents that have come in contact with Deare. They say that 8 years residency, your ties to the community, your character, conduct and employment, compassionate circumstances; 'are not compelling reasons to justify allowing you to remain in the UK'.
Deare has made a completely new life for himself in the UK. If deported, he will simply be dumped at an airport in northern Iraq, a country where he no longer has any family or any connections, and where he was imprisoned the last time he was there. This may well put his very life and well-being at risk. He is currently on medication for depression at Dungavel because of the trauma he has been through over the last week and the prospect of further trauma he will face if actually deported.
Friends of Deare Hamanajam
We are now organising a full Anti-Deportation campaign on behalf of Deare, which will include a petition signed by all of his colleagues and the hundreds of people he has helped in the local community. We are also approaching the media with details about his circumstances.
Though the main activity of the Campaign will be in Liverpool the campaign is asking for nation wide support as Deare will not be the only UK Iraqi/Kurd on this 'Ethnic Charter Flight'. If you know of any other UK Iraqi/Kurds served with the same removal directions, please help them campaign against their removal.
Please send urgent faxes/emails immediately to Rt. Hon Jacqui Smith, MP, Secretary of State for the Home Office, requesting that Deare Hamanajam, should not be removed from the UK. Please use the 'model letter' DeareHamanajamJS.doc attached or write your own version. If you do so, please remember to include HO ref: H1036945 /2.
Fax: 020 8760 3132 / + 44 20 8760 3132 if you are faxing from outside UK)
Emails:
UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk "CIT - Treat Official"
Please let the campaign know of any emails/faxes sent:
Friends of Deare Hamanajam
C/o
David.Sakho@remisus.org.uk *"You are to be removed to the KRG no sooner than 72 hours from the date of this notice, and no longer than 24 days from this notice", "you are to be removed on a specially chartered flight", served on the 29th December 2008.
The Home Office are now in the process of rounding up detaining up to 60 other Iraqi/Kurds to make sure this charter is full.
Other UK Iraqi/Kurds have been rounded up over the last 10 days, they have all been served with 'open ended removal directions', though the date of notification is later than those for Deare, it is expected that they will all be put on the same 'Ethnic Charter Flight' on which ever day it leaves the UK.
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