Forcible deportation of Iraqi asylum seekers ends in violence
16 September 2008 Media Release: Forcible Deportation of Iraqi asylum seekers ended in violence IFIR has been informed by Kurdish asylum seekers yesterday that at 7am, Monday 15 September Home Office commandoes went to the following four detention centres Tinsley House, Dover House, Oakington and Colnbrook removed and handcuffed 60 Iraqi asylum seekers and placed them in five coaches. Their mobile phones were confiscated before they could call solicitors or friends. The asylum seekers were then transported to Stansted airport, where a German aircraft waited to return them to Erbil in Northern...