Deportations from the UK

Stop Ali Mohammad Jasir’s Deportation from UK

The IFIR- UK’s intervention prevented the deportation of Yadaullah Jafari from Heathrow Airport in London to Iran on April 12, 2001. Jafari contacted the IFIR-UK Branch at 10am to inform us that he was to be deported at 8pm that day. Several hours before his deportation, IFIR-UK managed to rescue him.

The Branch is currently working to prevent the deportation of Ali Mohammad Jasir, an asylum seeker from Iran, who was detained after a visit to the UK Home Office on March 29, 2001. He is in danger of deportation to Germany and then to Iran.

Jasir is a political activist who took part in a sit-in by Iranian refugees in Turkey in 1995, and a year later sought asylum in Germany, which was refused after two years. Jasir recently sought asylum in the UK, together with his wife Behnaz Malaki and their daughter - once in 1998 and then again in 1999. He is now in danger of being removed to Germany where he would certainly be deported to Iran.

As a political activist opposed to the Iranian regime, Jasir faces a threat to his life or liberty if returned to Iran. The International Federation of Iranian Refugees - UK Office calls on all humanitarian and labour organisations to join our campaign to stop the deportation to Iran or Germany of Ali Mohammad Jasir and his family. The deportation of Jasir is equivalent to his being condemned to imprisonment, torture and even execution by the Islamic regime in Iran. We call for the immediate release of Jasir from detention, the dropping of all the charges and a review of his asylum application on the basis of his well-founded fear of persecution.