- Target:
- To Jacqui Smith, Ministers of State for Borders and Immigrationn
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- www.wpiraq.net
Jacqui Smith
Ministers of State for Borders and Immigration
3rd Floor, Peel Buildings,
2 Marsham St
London SW1 4DF
Fax: 020 8760 3132
Emails:UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk
CITTO@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
Re: Mr. Delshad Namiq Zorab - D.O.B:01-07-1956-Home Office Ref: H1050750
Mr Delshad Namiq Zorab is an active member of the UK Committee of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq and a member of The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees. He is currently detained and awaiting deportation. The Worker Communist Party of Iraq is a banned organisation in Iraq and Kurdistan. Its members both at home and abroad are persecuted by the Kurdish and Iraq security forces. Delshads life is in danger if we deport him back to Iraq Kurdistan
Delshad was born in 1/7/1956 in the village of Sewsenan, Sulaimaniyah, into a politically active family. Both he and his family have been the regular victims of persecution for their political beliefs and activities; his brother Kamal was killed by the Baath regime for his political activity and for being a member of the Iraqi Communist Party, 70 people from Delshads village, mainly family members and friends were killed in a chemical attack, similar to Halabja, by the Iraqi army’s on 22/3/1988.
Dalshad and his family moved to Sulaimaniyah after the attack, where he joined a political group called Rowti Communist (The Path of Communism). This group was very active in organising the mass uprising in 1991 against the Baath regime and was involved in the formation worker's council’s movement and then the Worker Communist Party of Iraq in July 2003.
Delshad joined the party in 2004. and has remained committed to fighting for the rights of people both at home and here in the UK; he has been involved in and led on a number of demonstrations and meetings calling for the end to violence and war, for the freedom of women and children, for equal rights of women and children against reactionary religious and nationalist influences.
As a result of this campaigning Dalshed has once again been the target of the PUK, KDP and Islamists hatred campaign against the movement, whilst Dalshed has escaped with his life to the UK, many of its leaders, members and activists have been assassinated, imprisoned and brutally persecuted. Delshad himself was arrested and tortured on a several occasions by the Kurdish nationalist parties and by the Baathist Iraqi regime
Dalshed has lived in the UK since 2003. He is unable to return to Kurdistan or anywhere else in Iraq for fear of his life and persecution. Dalshad fears for his life and the life of his family. Please help us stop this deportation.
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Rt. Hon Jacqui Smith, MP
Ministers of State for Borders and Immigration
3rd Floor, Peel Buildings,
2 Marsham St
London SW1 4DF
Fax: 020 8760 3132
Emails:UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk
CITTO@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
Dear Home Secretary
Mr. Delshad Namiq Zorab - D.O.B:01-07-1956-Home Office Ref: H1050750 was detained on Friday 13th February and is currently held in Rotherham Police Station awaiting transportation to an Immigration Removal Centre, despite the fact that his case is still pending.
Delshad came to the UK in 2003 to escape persecution by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (PUK), the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and by the Baathist regime. Delshad is a member of the worker communist party of Iraq, a banned organisation (in Iraq and Kurdistan) and has face persecution over a number of years. He has and continues to be an active member of the WCPI and he consistently fights for the rights of children, women and workers’ rights.
Recent deportees to Kurdistan and Iraq have been killed in car bombs, kidnapped and have committed suicide since going back. Many live in hiding. The same parties whose persecution forced Delshad to leave Iraq – PUK and KDP – are now in government. They have been condemned by human rights groups, including Amnesty International, for imprisoning human rights campaigners and those who oppose them politically.
Delshad has been outspoken of his criticism of them from the UK. He has lead and organised demonstrations and meetings about war and violence and taken a leading role in a number of activities throughout the UK.
He is an active member of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, organising and attending demonstrations outside the Kurdistan Regional Government’s offices in London.
If he goes back to Iraq I am afraid his life will be in serious and imminent danger. He will be a huge loss to his local community in Doncaster and the many groups and causes he is involved in.
I hope very much that you will release Delshad Zorab from detention and grant him indefinite leave to remain.
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