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08/27/2005:

"Protest against British deportation of Iraqis"

LONDON (AFP) - Campaigners rallied outside Britain's interior ministry in London to protest against the deportation of Iraqi nationals back to their homeland.

Around 50 demonstrators chanted slogans and waved banners as the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees handed in a petition to the Home Office.

Dashty Jamal, the group's spokesman in London, said 33 people were removed last week and a further 43 are expected to be deported Sunday.

Britain is host to around 7,000 Iraqi asylum seekers, of which 250 are currently in detention centres, Jamal said.

"They sent them back by force, they are victims of war and terrorism," he said.
Full: news.yahoo.com