By Marcus Morgan:
Iraqi asylum seekers deported from Britain
16 September 2006
The Blair government’s decision to circumvent injunction orders of the High Court and forcibly extradite 32 Iraqis back to the northern Kurdish region of Iraq marks a new low in the anti-democratic measures enacted by Home Secretary John Reid.
The asylum seekers were forced to return despite the advice of the Foreign Office and human rights organisations that the safety of failed asylum seekers back to Iraq can in no way be guaranteed.
The fear of returning to a region swamped in violence provoked some to inflict self-harm, and 15 attempted suicide. Several needed stitches, and one took an overdose.
This is the first time removals will take place as a matter of policy while there are still legal challenges outstanding.
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***Iraqi AFP Australian journalist kidnapped***
An Iraqi freelance Australian journalist working as a stringer
for news agency Agence France-Presse has been abducted in
Baghdad after visiting a relative in a government-run jail.
Bilal Abdelrahman al-Obeidi disappeared on August 14 after
he visited a detention centre near the Interior Ministry in
central Baghdad to see his cousin.
Mr Obeidi’s family and AFP have been in contact with his
captors using his mobile telephone but the kidnappers have
not identified themselves nor made any demands,
apart from asking for recharge codes for their own telephones.
The kidnapping has been reported to the Iraqi
Government and the US military, which coordinates security in Baghdad.
AFP only decided to publicise it after failing
to persuade Mr Obeidi’s captors to release him.
Mr Obeidi, who worked in the Sunni city of Ramadi,
a hotbed of Iraq’s insurgency, is the second AFP
employee to have been kidnapped in recent months.
The news agency is still without news of office accountant
Salah Jali al-Gharrawi, who was seized by gunmen on the
evening of April 4 after leaving the AFP bureau in central Baghdad.
Thousands of Iraqis have been kidnapped in recent months
amid a rising tide of sectarian violence.
The bodies of murdered torture victims are found daily
in Baghdad’s streets and waterways.
ABS News Online – AFP
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