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Iraq Refuses Entry To Failed Asylum-Seekers Deported From Britain 115 days ago
(RTTNews) - Iraqi government has refused to accept some 30 asylum-seekers deported from Britain to their home country, said officials on Friday.
The incident happened after the first British deportation flight to Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 landed in the Iraqi capital on Thursday with 40 failed Iraqi asylum-seekers, who were denied residence in Britain
According to officials, Iraqi authorities allowed only 10 of the 40 failed asylum-seekers deported from Britain to re-enter their home country. It is not clear why they were refused entry.
The remaining 30 Iraqis were flown back to Italy on the same flight, and from there to Britain in a different flight. They are currently being held at a detention center near Gatwick airport, pending a decision by the Home Office on the next course of action.
"We are working closely with the Iraq government to iron out the issues which led to some of the returnees being sent back, and expect to carry out another flight in the future," Lin Homer, the chief executive of the UK Border Agency, said after the return of the Iraqi asylum-seekers.
It is understood that the Iraqi military officers at the airport allowed only those Iraqis who wanted to return to to their home country on their own free will to disembark from the plane. They reportedly asked those forced to return to remain in their seats and ordered the British immigration officials not to send anyone back by force again.
British media reports suggested that most of the Iraqi asylum seekers on the plane were removed from the UK against their will, and were escorted by almost 80 officials on their flight back to Iraq.
Earlier, Britain's move to send back the failed Iraqi asylum-seekers to their home country had evoked widespread condemnation from rights agencies across the world, triggered by concerns that such an unprecedented move by the British government would prompt other countries that are currently hosting thousands of Iraqi refugees to deport them back to their home country.
While Amnesty International said that it opposed the British move to send failed asylum seekers to central and southern Iraq over security concerns, the London office of condemned the forced removal of Iraqi asylum seekers and said that it would send the wrong signal to other countries, like Syria and Jordan, which have large numbers of refugees and could trigger a destabilizing wave of returns.
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