UK allows hit and run death driver to remain

Posted on: December 29th, 2009 Posted by Beth Williams

A UK asylum seeker who was the driver that fled the scene of a fatal car crash that left a young girl dead has been allowed to remain in Britain.
31-year-old Aso Mohammed Ibrahim of Blackburn was jailed for four months after hitting 12-year-old Amy Houston in 2003. Ibrahim used human rights legislation to invoke the [...]

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A group of asylum seekers from Iraq said that, when the Home Office deported them, they were being sent to their deaths. Just earlier this week, members of that same group of asylum seekers that was sent away were able to just survey the latest bomb outrage in Baghdad. This bombing took 155 lives.
The group [...]

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New allegations have been brought to light by Iraqi asylum seekers. They are claiming that racist taunts and operational chaos was very present during the failed deportation attempt to Baghdad by the Home Office. Sources say that three of the men that were put on the UK Border Agency’s first flight to the Iraqi capital [...]

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Fate of Iraqi deportees still undecided

Posted on: October 19th, 2009 Posted by Anna Rowlands

The controversial transportation saga of some 30 Iraqi deportees back to their homeland continues after almost all were denied re-entry upon landing in Baghdad.
The UK charter flight which sparked widespread condemnation by human rights groups and which was initially a joint effort in collaboration with the French government landed at Baghdad Airport last Thursday but [...]

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Information has just come in that a high court judge just recently blocked the forced removal of six Iraqi asylum seekers on a deportation flight back to Baghdad. This was a flight that was suppose to be leaving Heathrow Airport yesterday morning.
It seems that Mr Justice Davis has now granted an injunction that has prevented [...]

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