Petition Tag - delshad namiq

Jacqui Smith
Ministers of State for Borders and Immigration
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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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