A call for solidarity issued by his fellow Iraqi colleague: Ara Khajadour
It has emerged that the Jordanian government has decided to deport the Iraqi
writer and journalist Ali Al Sudanie back to Iraq. Mr. Sudanie who has chosen his exile in Jordan, because of its proximity to his homeland, has been outspoken in his writings about the occupation and its agents. He has not hesitated to expose the crimes being committed in Iraq.
Mr. Sudanie's friends and relatives are therefore extremely worried about his welfare and well being, should he be forced to return to Iraq. Being sent back to Iraq, in the current atmosphere of death squads and militias acting with impunity is being sent to a certain death. Mr. Suddanie's friends fear that his body will turn up like the hundreds unidentified bodies found each month in Baghdad in some rubbish dump having met a horrible and slow death.
While Mr. Sudanie's friends understand the difficulty created by the Iraqi
government's incompetence and mishandling the frequent issuing of new
editions of Iraqi passports that cannot have made the job of the Jordanian
officials in the immigration department easy. And while most Iraqis are
grateful for the generosity of Jordan in giving shelter to nearly one million fleeing from hell Iraqis, they nevertheless appeal to the Jordanian authorities to exercise their discretion and grant Mr. Sudanie permission to stay in Jordan.
We appeal to the Jordanian authorities not to deport Iraqis back to hell.
Jordan Embassy
6 Upper Phillimore Gardens
London W8 7HA
Telephone:
(020) 7937 3685
(020) 7937 9499 Jordan Information Bureau
(0906) 550 8968 Visa Information Service
Fax:
(020) 7937 8795
(020) 7937 6741 Jordan Information Bureau
Contact King Abdullah
http://www.kingabdullah.jo/main.php?main_page=0&lang_hmka1=1
Contact Queen Rania:
http://www.queenrania.jo/content/feedback.aspx
To the European Union Commissioner for Human Rights: Thomas Hammarberg
CommissionerHR.Communication@coe.int
UNHCR:
+41 22 739 8111 (automatic switchboard).
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/contact
Amnesty: eastgulf@amnesty.org
Human Rights Watch: hrwuk@hrw.org
Ara Khajadour
Please also see:
Two journalists murdered in Baghdad, a third kidnapped in Kirkuk
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2935.shtml
The State Department's Rosy Deception on Iraq Refugees
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2897.shtml
Maliki furious his torturers exposed
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31158&hd=&size=1&l=e
Petitioning for Transparency on Death Statistics
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2928.shtml
Attacks Across Iraq Kill at Least 110 Shi'ite Pilgrims, 9 US, 4 Iraqi Troops http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-03-06-voa26.cfm
UN: 4.5 Million Iraqi Children Malnourished
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2934.shtml
ECHO Shelter Rehabilitation Aid: Khan Dannoun refugee camp, Syria
Refugee Stories: Khan Dannoun, March 2007
http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/stories/2007/ECHO_ShelterRehabAid.html
It has emerged that the Jordanian government has decided to deport the Iraqi
writer and journalist Ali Al Sudanie back to Iraq. Mr. Sudanie who has chosen his exile in Jordan, because of its proximity to his homeland, has been outspoken in his writings about the occupation and its agents. He has not hesitated to expose the crimes being committed in Iraq.
Mr. Sudanie's friends and relatives are therefore extremely worried about his welfare and well being, should he be forced to return to Iraq. Being sent back to Iraq, in the current atmosphere of death squads and militias acting with impunity is being sent to a certain death. Mr. Suddanie's friends fear that his body will turn up like the hundreds unidentified bodies found each month in Baghdad in some rubbish dump having met a horrible and slow death.
While Mr. Sudanie's friends understand the difficulty created by the Iraqi
government's incompetence and mishandling the frequent issuing of new
editions of Iraqi passports that cannot have made the job of the Jordanian
officials in the immigration department easy. And while most Iraqis are
grateful for the generosity of Jordan in giving shelter to nearly one million fleeing from hell Iraqis, they nevertheless appeal to the Jordanian authorities to exercise their discretion and grant Mr. Sudanie permission to stay in Jordan.
We appeal to the Jordanian authorities not to deport Iraqis back to hell.
Jordan Embassy
6 Upper Phillimore Gardens
London W8 7HA
Telephone:
(020) 7937 3685
(020) 7937 9499 Jordan Information Bureau
(0906) 550 8968 Visa Information Service
Fax:
(020) 7937 8795
(020) 7937 6741 Jordan Information Bureau
Contact King Abdullah
http://www.kingabdullah.jo/main.php?main_page=0&lang_hmka1=1
Contact Queen Rania:
http://www.queenrania.jo/content/feedback.aspx
To the European Union Commissioner for Human Rights: Thomas Hammarberg
CommissionerHR.Communication@coe.int
UNHCR:
+41 22 739 8111 (automatic switchboard).
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/contact
Amnesty: eastgulf@amnesty.org
Human Rights Watch: hrwuk@hrw.org
Ara Khajadour
Please also see:
Two journalists murdered in Baghdad, a third kidnapped in Kirkuk
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2935.shtml
The State Department's Rosy Deception on Iraq Refugees
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2897.shtml
Maliki furious his torturers exposed
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31158&hd=&size=1&l=e
Petitioning for Transparency on Death Statistics
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2928.shtml
Attacks Across Iraq Kill at Least 110 Shi'ite Pilgrims, 9 US, 4 Iraqi Troops http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-03-06-voa26.cfm
UN: 4.5 Million Iraqi Children Malnourished
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2934.shtml
ECHO Shelter Rehabilitation Aid: Khan Dannoun refugee camp, Syria
Refugee Stories: Khan Dannoun, March 2007
http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/stories/2007/ECHO_ShelterRehabAid.html